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Carl Levin: “And that raises the equity issue, it seems to me, because if there are a lot of people who are getting their…”

On the recordApril 24, 2007
And that raises the equity issue, it seems to me, because if there are a lot of people who are getting their transportation paid for by the government, who would have paid for that mass transit from their own pay, where you have other folks in other parts of the country without mass transit who work for the Federal Government who do not have that benefit, it seems to me there is an inequity there.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan
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congress.gov
Apr 24, 2007

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Highlighting the equity issue in transportation benefits.

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