In what is left of the rail funding, we had $5 billion in our proposal; that has been cut to a billion.
James Oberstar: “In what is left of the rail funding, we had $5 billion in our proposal; that has been cut to a billion.”
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Oberstar discusses cuts to rail funding and the lack of local match requirements.
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