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Cory Booker: We have trashed that infrastructure, allowed it to decline dramatically, and we are suffering as a result of that.

On the recordApril 19, 2016
We have trashed that infrastructure, allowed it to decline dramatically, and we are suffering as a result of that.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker highlights the decline of U.S. infrastructure and its negative impacts.

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