The California Senate on Friday narrowly voted 21 to 16 to approve an $8 billion budget measure to begin construction on a massive high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles.The move is a political victory for Democratic Governor Jerry Brown and the Obama Administration, both major backers of the project, which would be the largest such new infrastructure construction in the nation in years.
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