Patrick Leahy actually said...

Why don't we spend some money--we don't have to build the George Washington Parkway--to build a road like the dirt road that I live on in Vermont, where they could actually go 25, 35 miles an hour and bring the food in an hour's time to market.

Context

Leahy suggests investing in infrastructure to improve food access in developing countries.

02/27/2012

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