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As newly elected Republican governors in Wisconsin and Ohio threaten to reject hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to build desperately needed high speed rail projects, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer have stepped up to call on those funds to be redirected to California should they become available. Here’s the full text [...]
The US Senate embraced Hooverism today, refusing cloture and effectively killing a jobs bill. This comes even after the bill was significantly watered down over what the US House had approved, which itself was a much-watered down version of the bill they approved in late 2009. The reason given for this act of madness, which [...]
(Note: the following post is by Dennis Lytton, who was in Washington DC last week lobbying for passenger rail funding.) Last week I attended the National Association of Railroad Passengers annual meeting in Washington, DC. NARP is the largest national membership advocacy organization for train and rail transit passengers. In fact, it’s the only group [...]
California State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (head of the majority Democrats) proposed a jobs package yesterday, and high speed rail is a key element: A day before the first legislative vote on efforts to close California’s $19.9 billion deficit, Senate Democrats on Tuesday mapped out a package of bills they claim will rev [...]
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