12/01/1997
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The high speed rail in four years, we have invested $12 billion. That's just the federal money.
The President has called on us to rebuild America--to put people back to work repairing our roads, bridges, transit syst...
That's a good place to start, not by one government saying, OK, we're going to tax you all.
This has been an extraordinary four years for high-speed rail.