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Need To Know | High Speed Rail: A Blueprint America Report | PBS

Duration: 10:15
Program: Need to Know #136
Broadcast Date: Jan. 14, 2011

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.

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