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Earl Blumenauer: “If we did our job, sending clear signals about transportation funding, the appropriating committee, the T&I, if they…”

On the recordJuly 29, 2015
If we did our job, sending clear signals about transportation funding, the appropriating committee, the T&I, if they knew what they were working with, could come forth with a bill easily in 2 months, so we wouldn't have to continue this charade. We could put hundreds of thousands of people to work at family-wage jobs in every city around the country; we would meet our obligations, and we would stop this shameful exercise of abrogating our responsibility to rebuild and renew.
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Earl Blumenauer
Democratic · Oregon
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Jul 29, 2015

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