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Peter DeFazio: “They come up with this phenomenal number of $51 per passenger on Amtrak. But they ignore the bulk of the passengers.”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2012
They come up with this phenomenal number of $51 per passenger on Amtrak. But they ignore the bulk of the passengers.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

DeFazio criticizes the misleading statistics on Amtrak's passenger costs.

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