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HOW MANY UNION MEMBERS DOES IT TAKE TO OPERATE A TRAIN?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S proposed $2.25 trillion infrastructure spending bill is more than just a huge barrel of federal cash for road, bridge, and rail projects. It is also a vehicle for reauthorizing America’s surface transportation laws, providing an opportunity for special interests to write new rules and mandates into federal policy.

While most of those niche fights are unremarkable, the one shaping up between the railroad industry

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