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On the recordMarch 11, 2019
With all due respect, is that your response to why you cut the Department of Transportation by 20 percent and why you reduced the amount of total resources from $1.5 trillion last year to $1 trillion this year?
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Doggett questions the rationale behind significant cuts to the Transportation Department.

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