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On the recordApril 23, 2013
Even at the $7.7 billion level times 20, and I am always suspicious of my math, roughly $150 billion. Your 20-year projection is $633 billion of work. So we are at a $500 billion gap between what you need you have to do and what we are doing.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Reed highlights a significant funding gap for infrastructure needs.

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