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Jack Reed: “Should the local jurisdictions and States where these systems reside have any responsibility to pay for these systems?…”

On the recordMay 10, 2021
Should the local jurisdictions and States where these systems reside have any responsibility to pay for these systems? Evidently not, according to my colleagues.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Questioning local responsibility for transit funding.

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