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Obama Stresses Need For Infrastructure Repairs

from National Public Radio
September 22, 2011

To make the point that America's infrastructure is in need of repair and the federal government should do it, President Obama traveled to the Brent Spence Bridge. It runs over the Ohio River, and it connects House Speaker John Boehner's Ohio to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's Kentucky. Melissa Block talks to NPR's Ari Shapiro for more.

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  • All Things Considered, September 22, 2011
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