(The following appeared on The Hill website on May 23, 2011.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will use a Thursday hearing to press the Obama administration to rely more on private investment for a high-speed rail project in the Northeast.
Committee leaders noted the benefits high-speed rail would provide to cities in the Northeast in a memo distributed by Republican staff, and stressed that the corridor between Boston and Washington, D.C., was an ideal location for the investment.
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