(Source: Los Angeles Times, February 26, 2014)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama is scheduled to tour a revived train station in the Midwest on Wednesday to extol the benefits of federal spending on light-rail, roads and bridges as he tries to prod Congress to take up a major transportation bill this year. During a visit to St. Paul, Minn.’s freshly renovated Union Depot, Obama is to outline a four-year, $302-billion transportation plan, the White House said. If Congress doesn’t act to renew infrastructure programs, more than 700,000 jobs will be at risk, Obama plans to say.
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