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The numbers I have generally seen, but I have a feeling you have better, more detailed insights on this, is that the U.S. is now spending less than 2 percent of our GDP on infrastructure, that Europe is spending 5 percent, that China is spending 10 percent.

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Merkley compares U.S. infrastructure spending to that of Europe and China.

01/27/2015

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