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On the recordFebruary 29, 2012
At this time when you have said the economy is moving forward but at a slow pace, taking away infrastructure money might hurt the economy, adding infrastructure money would certainly help the economy.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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Schumer argues that increasing infrastructure funding would benefit the economy.

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