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House Appropriators to Vote on Anti-Amtrak Amendments TODAY
June 4, 2015
House Appropriators to Vote on Anti-Amtrak Amendments TODAY
The House of Representatives is scheduled to hold a final series of roll call votes on the Transportation, Housing & Urban Development appropriations bill today. Votes may come as early as 11:00 AM Eastern.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation voted to approve a budget last month that attacks funding for trains and transit. While House appropriators protected road subsidies -- and even increased spending on the Federal Aviation Administration -- but Amtrak funding was cut by $262 million, transit funding was cut by $161 million and funding for the intermodal TIGER grant program was slashed by $400 million.
NARP has learned that anti-train members of Congress will offer amendments to cut Amtrak spending. Call NOW and tell your representative to vote NO on any amendment that cuts funding to trains! Click here to send a message to Congress on the importance of investing in rail infrastructure.
"The support from the Rail Passengers Association, and from all of you individually, has been incredibly important to Amtrak throughout our history and especially so during the last trying year."
Bill Flynn, Amtrak CEO
April 19, 2021, speaking to attendees at the Rail Passengers Virtual Spring Advocacy Conference
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