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Sam Graves: “Payment of lavish executive bonuses when Amtrak services and revenues remain below prepandemic levels, and financial…”

On the recordJune 5, 2023
Payment of lavish executive bonuses when Amtrak services and revenues remain below prepandemic levels, and financial losses appear permanent, seem inappropriate, wasteful and disrespectful to Amtrak's nonexecutive frontline employees and taxpayers.
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Sam Graves
Republican · Missouri

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Graves criticized Amtrak's executive bonuses amid significant financial losses.

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