I can't help but note that, as we're in a Presidential election year, that some of the proposals coming out of this committee remind me of the Mitt Romney view of the world, which is we dismantle Amtrak, which he would do by zeroing it out, we cost thousands of Amtrak workers their jobs, we subject Amtrak riders to chaos and uncertainty on the very corridor that he was Governor once, and tragically undermining the Railroad Retirement system.
Capuano criticizes proposals to dismantle Amtrak, linking them to Mitt Romney's views.
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