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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I also want to state that, from what I see, there has been a lot of progress made.
There will be no more bottom lines on whether it was worth the money to not do PTC and possibly risk lives or property.
But it is also worth noting that to the American people, it was Democrats under the sterling leadership of our Ranking Member, Ms. Maxine Waters, who has been fighting and been our protector on many of these issues.
For those of you who are not, understand it is going to be very difficult to make an argument that for some reason everybody else could do it except you.
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