06:36 AM CST on Tuesday, January 19, 2010

By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER / The Dallas Morning News
mlindenberger@dallasnews.com The federal government is about to hand out a river of cash to states willing to build a network of bullet trains, as the Obama administration and Democrats in Congress seek to slowly ease the country’s dependence on automobiles and airplanes to make short trips between its biggest cities.

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Tags: bullet trains, Congress, Democrats, federal government, federal rail grants, Obama administration, Texas

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