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
“The CRRC moved into Australia in 2008 and within a decade the four domestic suppliers of freight and transit rails are gone.”
Government shutdown pushing Metro off the rails to the tune of $400K every weekday -