8, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden announced that the U.S. government will invest in the next 6 years, 53 billion U.S. dollars developing high-speed rail network.
the same day Biden attended an event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, said the investment plan designed to achieve U.S. President to the State of the Union's next 25 years to make high-speed rail cover 80% of the population of the target nation .
Biden said that as the first step in the plan, the White House in the 2012 fiscal year (beginning October 1 this year) Federal Budget $ 8,000,000,000 appropriation for the expansion of high-speed passenger rail service.
Obama became president, he has invested a total of 10.5 billion U.S. dollars has been the development of domestic high-speed rail network, including large-scale economic stimulus plan of $ 8,000,000,000 in earmarks and fiscal year 2010 federal budget of 2.5 billion U.S. funds.
Obama administration infrastructure is economic development, job creation key policy pillars. Published last month, Obama raised in State of the Union
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