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On the recordApril 24, 2007
At this point if we are going to be spending $1 billion to help a fairly small percentage of Federal employees switch from single occupancy vehicle to mass transit, and in any event a fairly small percentage of Federal employees period, and if there is a lot of abuse going on in this program it seems to me there is a heavy burden on people who support this program to either clean it up or I do not see how we sustain it.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan
Source
congress.gov
Apr 24, 2007

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Levin questions the effectiveness and sustainability of the mass transit subsidy program.

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