Policy · 116th Congress
Biden will support Amtrak; can he convince GOP?
How his years riding the rails put him on a first-name basis with Amtrak staff. How he announced his first presidential bid at the train station in Wilmington in 1987.
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How his years riding the rails put him on a first-name basis with Amtrak staff. How he announced his first presidential bid at the train station in Wilmington in 1987.
“Because of his military background, because of his ranking membership of the rails subcommittee, because Arkansas is a big state for rail manufacturing, he just sort of hits all the different buckets
“He also rails against the swamp, rails against lobbyists, and then sends emails to lobbyists to attend his fundraisers, which arrive in our in-boxes quarterly.”
“The CRRC moved into Australia in 2008 and within a decade the four domestic suppliers of freight and transit rails are gone.”
Both parties knew that the meeting had the potential to go off the rails.
, a widely cited source of analysis of the state of the country’s infrastructure, estimated in 2015 that the U.S. needs about $4.6 trillion by 2025 to repair and maintain the nation’s roads, bridges, rails