[il-talk] Fw: Fwd: Republicans Want to take away all state supported Amtrak trains

[Robert A Hansen]

Here we go again. 


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From: "Robert A. Hansen" <roberthansen1970 at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:22:20 
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Subject: Fwd: Republicans Want to take away all state supported Amtrak trains



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Subject: 	Republicans Want to take away all state supported Amtrak trains
Date: 	Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:08:59 -0500
From: 	Robert A. Hansen <roberthansen1970 at gmail.com>
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I have had it up to here with these butt head Republicans. I am sick of
them.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 8, 2011
Revised
ATK-11-119
Contact: Media Relations
202 906.3860
HOUSE REPUBLICAN BUDGET PLAN WILL ELIMINATE
ALL STATE-SUPPORTED AMTRAK SERVICE
WASHINGTON – Despite record-breaking Amtrak ridership and strong support
for intercity passenger rail by 15 states, the House Republican
transportation budget plan will effectively eliminate all
state-supported Amtrak service across the country for the fiscal year
beginning October 1.
The FY 2012 Transportation-HUD House Appropriations Subcommittee budget
proposal offered by the Majority prohibits the use of federal funds
provided to Amtrak to fund any operating costs of state-supported
trains. If enacted by the full Congress, it will eliminate nearly 150
weekday state-supported trains and negatively impact the more than nine
million passengers who ride those trains each year and the communities
they live in.
“The House Republican plan is shortsighted and is the wrong policy for
America,” said Amtrak President and CEO Joseph Boardman. “It will result
in the loss of jobs and reverses significant progress made to use
passenger rail to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.”
“The GOP plan penalizes states that have made investments in passenger
rail, some of which have contributed toward costs for nearly 40 years,”
said Amtrak board chairman Tom Carper. “It kills an engine of local and
regional economic growth much needed today, harms the future economic
vitality of the nation and is unnecessary.”
Under legislation passed by Congress in 2008, Amtrak is working
cooperatively with its state partners to develop a common methodology to
share more of the operating and capital costs of state-supported trains
with the states.
“The Republican proposal forces an unwelcome decision on states who
clearly want to preserve and expand passenger rail service,” Carper stated.
The 15 states which provide state-supported Amtrak service are:
California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North
Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia,
Washington and Wisconsin.
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