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Battle of words over California high-speed rail erupts at Capitol Hill hearing

(Source: McClatchy News Service, January 15, 2014)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House lawmakers grilled state and federal officials, and some of their own colleagues, about California's high-speed rail program in a three-hour hearing Wednesday looking at the future of the embattled project.

Full story: Fresno Bee

Thursday, January 16, 2014

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