How last night’s speech resonated with Congress
President Obama’s State of the Union Address touched on several key and pressing issues facing the country, from transportation, to immigration and innovation. The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich, shares his thoughts on the speech and what it could mean for the coming year in the halls of Congress. The Takeaway partners with Transportation Nation, to examine the president’s commitment to high speed rail in this country; Obama said he wanted to connect 80 percent of Americans via high-speed rail in coming years.
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