yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/19/2009
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To review what we know about high-speed rail in the stimulus, a last-minute change to the legislation ensured that $8 billion will be appropriated to be spent on high-speed rail projects. Numerous conservative commentators and several Republican legislators have been characterizing this ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/17/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
David Rogers has a piece in Politico that
offers a nice summary of the recovery plan’s actual...
high-speed rail provisions and the direct role of the White House in securing them: The $787.2 billion economic recovery bill — to be signed by ...
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Politico’s David Rogers Catches Republicans Lying About ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/13/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Good news for people who like fast trains
as it seems a significant amount of high speed...
rail funds made it into the stimulus: And while many initiatives were scaled back as Congress and the White House sought to cut the overall cost, there were ...
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High-Speed Rail in the Stimulus
huffingtonpost.com - 2/19/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
After much clamoring by energy hawks , who
knows what it was that finally brought high-speed rail...
to the stimulus -- perhaps a little nudge from ol' Amtrak Joe ? -- but it got in, to the tune of $8 billion . And now the question is, where will the ...
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Map Of Potential High-Speed Rail Built By The Stimulus
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RE: About Harry Reid's Pet Project . . .
The Corner on National Review Online —
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 [image] RE: About Harry Reid's Pet Project . . . [ Mark Hemingway ] For those of you that are interested, Matt Yglesias has responded to my post about his harping on Republican lawmakers for criticizing Harry Reid's high speed rail plans. Yglesias has seized on one aspect of my criticism, and claims I'm "spinning" the matter in defense of Republican lawmakers. I think I was perfectly blunt in admitting more than one Republican has mischaracterized the stimulus bill's provisions. I think the total lack of transparency in the ...
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