If the House does not pass a transportation bill, and passes another short-term extension, to be honest, in a State like yours, Senator Collins, where you have a very short construction window because of the weather in Maine, it will be very difficult for your State DOT to really do anything big in your State.
Emphasizing the importance of passing a transportation bill for effective state planning.
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We are not going to get $1 as long as there is language in the appropriation bills that says no Federal money can be spent on California high-speed rail.
The answer is $300 to $500 billion to get us back to being number one in infrastructure.
The high speed rail in four years, we have invested $12 billion. That's just the federal money.
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