05/19/2014
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"If you're asking this county and more specifically their taxpayers to fund the maintenance of railroad crossing in perpetuity and they don't benefit, it has to be at least a cost consideration for thi..."
"some of my colleagues, including Congressman Mast, have raised these concerns related to the eligibility of a private sector entity like Brightline to receive Federal assistance."
"I do believe that if Congress had intended to provide private activity bonds for a passenger train traveling 80 to 110 miles per hour, as Brightline does, then Congress would have laid that out."
"I'm the most conservative on private property rights of anybody on this dais, I promise you being from Western North Carolina."