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Joe Manchin: I think it's a great idea that at some point in time we need to designate a portion of our severance money to go into a…

On the recordNovember 13, 2011
I think it's a great idea that at some point in time we need to designate a portion of our severance money to go into a perpetual trust that we use solely for infrastructure in West Virginia in the future.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin advocates for a trust fund for infrastructure using severance money.

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