The US Senate approved a $13 Billion funding package for Amtrak earlier this month, nearly doubling the previous funding for the National Railway. The move comes amidst an amazing confluence of factors, in a world rapidly changing before our very eyes, chief amongst them the record price of gasoline over the past year and the subsequent increase to record train ridership and decrease in the power of the major automobile manufacturers.
With the House of Representatives having past a similar measure last week, the bill now moves to the Oval Office to await the President’s signature in order to be enacted. Not suprisingly, the Bush Administration had threatened to veto Amtrak funding earlier this year, but with the recent passage of the legislation with near veto-proof majorities in both chambers of Congress it is unlikely, though still possible, that Bush would risk the unnecessary embarrassment of having a veto turned over this late in his term. Read the rest of this entry »
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