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Ray LaHood: “While maintaining transportation safety as the Department's preeminent goal, the most immediate need will be to…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2009
While maintaining transportation safety as the Department's preeminent goal, the most immediate need will be to implement the Economic Recovery Act rapidly...
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Ray LaHood
Republican · Illinois

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LaHood emphasizes the urgency of implementing the Economic Recovery Act for economic recovery.

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