(rshsdepot) [FriendsOfAmtrak] Amtrak President on Funding for FY 2003 - Jan. 17, 2003

["Kenyon Karl" <kenyon3_@_earthlink.net>]

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:39:10 -0500
From: Craig O'Connell <crocon_@_MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject: [FriendsOfAmtrak] Amtrak President on Funding for FY 2003 - Jan.
17, 2003
 
Dear Friends of Amtrak,
 
This is a message from Amtrak President David Gunn on Amtrak funding
for FY 2003 released today.
 
Regards,
Craig O'Connell
Friends of Amtrak
 
 
Dear Amtrak Co-workers:
 
Last night, the U.S. Senate passed Senator Patty Murray's amendment
restoring
Amtrak operating and capital funding to $1.2 billion for FY 2003. I
think you
know that had this amendment not passed, we would really have been in
the
soup.
 
I appreciate Senator Murray's effort and the bi-partisan support of the
Senators who helped to pass this amendment, especially Kay Bailey
Hutchison,
Robert Byrd, Olympia Snowe, Ernest Hollings, Lincoln Chafee, Joe Biden,
Arlen
Specter, Harry Reid, Jim Jeffords, Richard Durbin and Tom Carper.
 
I also appreciate Commerce Committee Chairman McCain's comments last
night
and his desire to run a better railroad. We're making progress, but
we've all
got a lot more work ahead of us.
 
As for the legislation, once the House and Senate have agreed to the
same
bill, it will go to the President to be signed. That could happen in
the next
one or two weeks, but no one really knows. We do know that at some
point in
time Congress will have to resolve the difference between the House's
intention to fund us at $762 million and the Senate's action to fund us
at
$1.2 billion. I will keep you posted on any more developments.
 
Sincerely,
 
David L. Gunn
 
 
 
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Friends of Amtrak by Craig S. O'Connell
URL: http://trainweb.org/crocon/amtrak.html
E-mail: crocon_@_mindspring.com
 
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