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Don Beyer: “Let's look forward. We seem to be looking backwards.”

On the recordFebruary 14, 2017
Let's look forward. We seem to be looking backwards.
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Don Beyer
Democratic · Virginia

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Beyer urges a forward-looking approach to infrastructure investment.

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