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On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
In a day and age when China is spending 9 percent of their GDP on infrastructure, we are spending less than half of a percent.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings highlights the disparity in infrastructure spending between the U.S. and China.

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