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On the recordApril 28, 2009
I said we could cancel sending a man to Mars and invest that money in a 25-year plan to have high speed rail interconnected in the United States of America.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

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DeFazio advocates reallocating funds from Mars exploration to high-speed rail development.

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