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House Appropriators to Vote on Anti-Amtrak Amendments TODAY

June 4, 2015

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.

Comments

"The National Association of Railroad Passengers has done yeoman work over the years and in fact if it weren’t for NARP, I'd be surprised if Amtrak were still in possession of as a large a network as they have. So they've done good work, they're very good on the factual case."

Robert Gallamore, Director of Transportation Center at Northwestern University and former Federal Railroad Administration official, Director of Transportation Center at Northwestern University
November 17, 2005, on The Leonard Lopate Show (with guest host Chris Bannon), WNYC New York.