Save Our Trains Michigan
Conductor
To NARP Members, April 26, 2005-
If your representative is a Republican, please urge him or her to
sign the pro-Amtrak letter now circulating in the House, addressed to
Chairman Joseph Knollenberg (R-MI) of the transportation/treasury
appropriations subcommittee. In particular, note that the following
Republicans who signed the earlier letter to the Budget Committee
chairman have not (yet) signed the new letter:
IL: Timothy Johnson
MT: Rehberg
NJ: LoBiondo, Saxton and Christopher Smith
OH: Ney
NY: Kelly and Walsh
PA: Gerlach
The letter is circulated by Reps. Castle (DE), Boehlert (NY), Simmons
(CT) and Fitzpatrick (PA). To sign on, legislators should contact Jim
Catella in Castle's office (5-4165).
Here are a few key sentences from the letter. It begins: "We are
writing
to express our support for $1.8 billion in federal funding for Amtrak
in
the Fiscal Year 2006 Transportation, Treasury and Housing and Urban
Development, the Judiciary and the District of Columbia Appropriations
Bill." Near the end, the letter states: "We certainly understand your
desire to be accountable with taxpayer dollars and we believe Amtrak
is
headed in the right direction. As Members of Congress it is our duty
to
continue to provide Americans with effective and environmentally
friendly transportation options."
===========================================
The New York Times has a good, positive editorial, "Keep Amtrak
Going." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/opinion/26tue2.html?
th&emc=th
If your representative is a Republican, please urge him or her to
sign the pro-Amtrak letter now circulating in the House, addressed to
Chairman Joseph Knollenberg (R-MI) of the transportation/treasury
appropriations subcommittee. In particular, note that the following
Republicans who signed the earlier letter to the Budget Committee
chairman have not (yet) signed the new letter:
IL: Timothy Johnson
MT: Rehberg
NJ: LoBiondo, Saxton and Christopher Smith
OH: Ney
NY: Kelly and Walsh
PA: Gerlach
The letter is circulated by Reps. Castle (DE), Boehlert (NY), Simmons
(CT) and Fitzpatrick (PA). To sign on, legislators should contact Jim
Catella in Castle's office (5-4165).
Here are a few key sentences from the letter. It begins: "We are
writing
to express our support for $1.8 billion in federal funding for Amtrak
in
the Fiscal Year 2006 Transportation, Treasury and Housing and Urban
Development, the Judiciary and the District of Columbia Appropriations
Bill." Near the end, the letter states: "We certainly understand your
desire to be accountable with taxpayer dollars and we believe Amtrak
is
headed in the right direction. As Members of Congress it is our duty
to
continue to provide Americans with effective and environmentally
friendly transportation options."
===========================================
The New York Times has a good, positive editorial, "Keep Amtrak
Going." http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/26/opinion/26tue2.html?
th&emc=th