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jct74
05-20-2016, 06:18 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnpBruAtxxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnpBruAtxxo

jct74
05-20-2016, 07:52 PM
Rand Paul: Maybe this will help build Brent Spence

Scott Wartman
May 19, 2016

No one has yet stepped forward to pay for the $2.6 billion Brent Spence Bridge project.

So, a couple of days after winning the primary and starting a re-election campaign, Sen. Rand Paul called The Enquirer to talk about his plan to use money aimed for overseas.

Maybe this one will work where others failed.

He's come up with plans before, one to encourage corporations to bring revenue back into the United States and use the tax money to pay for infrastructure. Another one targeted foreign aid to Egypt. Neither has passed.

This one, introduced in the Senate this week, would send excess foreign aid money — about $8 billion to $9 billion, by his estimate — toward transportation projects.

He thinks this might be more palatable than the Egypt foreign aid proposal, he said, because it doesn't target a specific country.

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http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/blogs/2016/05/19/rand-paul-maybe-help-build-brent-spence/84616442/