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Need To Know  High Speed Rail: A Blueprint America Report

Will Obama's vision become reality? Details

 

Program: Need To Know

Episode: High Speed Rail: A Blueprint America Report

Correspondent Rick Karr travels to the midwest, where President Obama's vision for high-speed passenger rail has been rejected by Wisconsin's newly elected Republican governor Scott Walker as expensive and unnecessary and embraced by Illinois' Democratic governor Patrick Quinn as a far-sighted way to create jobs and grow the economy.

Duration: (10:14)
Premiere Date: 01/13/2011
Episode Expires: Thu 14 Jan 2016
TV Rating: NR


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