The American Recovery and Reinvestment Recission Act has been introduced as a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to rescind $12 billion allocated under the stimulus law (formally the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) but not yet spent. This includes any and all money for high-speed (California and Florida) and "higher-speed" (everyone else who got money) passenger rail projects that hasn't already been spent or contractually committed by Amtrak or the states.
The 27 co-sponsors are all Republicans, and key sponsors include Jerry Lewis and Charlie Kevin McCarthy of California. I don't know whether to laugh or weep. :angry2: Apparently, the "ideology is more important than bringing public works projects to my own state" disease is spreading from Wisconsin and Ohio. And yes, I know this thing won't pass both the Senate and the White House veto pen, but its a concrete sign of how politicized the issue of rail has become. The days of "there's no Republican or Democratic way to build a sewer line" are gone. hboy:
The 27 co-sponsors are all Republicans, and key sponsors include Jerry Lewis and Charlie Kevin McCarthy of California. I don't know whether to laugh or weep. :angry2: Apparently, the "ideology is more important than bringing public works projects to my own state" disease is spreading from Wisconsin and Ohio. And yes, I know this thing won't pass both the Senate and the White House veto pen, but its a concrete sign of how politicized the issue of rail has become. The days of "there's no Republican or Democratic way to build a sewer line" are gone. hboy: