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Obama and McCain's stances on America's transportation infrastructure

From: Blueprint America
Series: Blueprint America: The presidential candidates on infrastructure
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Default-piece-image-1 Part one of four Blueprint America reports, produced by Channel Thirteen/ WNET, PBS New York, with support from Rockefeller Foundation, of a series about the presidential candidates? views on America?s aging infrastructure. In part one, correspondent Rick Karr reports on how Sens. Obama and McCain stand on transportation ? from rail to roads. As lawmakers on Capitol Hill are talking about a stimulus bill that would spend heavily on infrastructure, including transportation, Karr speaks with former Transportation and Energy Secretary Federico Pena, a spokesperson for the Obama campaign, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain?s senior economic advisor.

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Part one of four Blueprint America reports, produced by Channel Thirteen/ WNET, PBS New York, with support from Rockefeller Foundation, of a series about the presidential candidates? views on America?s aging infrastructure. In part one, correspondent Rick Karr reports on how Sens. Obama and McCain stand on transportation ? from rail to roads. As lawmakers on Capitol Hill are talking about a stimulus bill that would spend heavily on infrastructure, including transportation, Karr speaks with former Transportation and Energy Secretary Federico Pena, a spokesperson for the Obama campaign, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain?s senior economic advisor.

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INTRO: Whoever moves into the Oval Office come January will have to work with Congress on a new federal transportation bill. The new president will have to strike a balance between roads and rail when allocating those hundreds of billions of federal dollars. In the first part of a series produced by the P-B-S Television project Blueprint America, Rick Karr reports that Barack Obama and John McCain take sharply different positions on what kind of transportation the country needs.

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NARR: The Obama camp says that BOTH pieces of the transportation pie need to grow ? but the emphasis is on rail. Federico Pena is former Secretary of Transportation ? and Energy ? and a spokesperson for the Obama campaign. Speaking from his office in Denver, he said ... a President Obama would break with recent history ... and push for new federal investment in mass-transit and high-speed rail.

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INTRO: Whoever moves into the Oval Office come January will have to work with Congress on a new federal transportation bill. The new president will have to strike a balance between roads and rail when allocating those hundreds of billions of federal dollars. In the first part of a series produced by the P-B-S Television project Blueprint America, Rick Karr reports that Barack Obama and John McCain take sharply different positions on what kind of transportation the country needs.