Peter DeFazio actually said...

the issue is, and you heard eloquently from Alderman O'Shea and others who raised concerns, that because of pressure from Wall Street, we are moving to destroying the freight industry with Precision Scheduled Railroading, which may improve stockholder profitability but has a whole lot of other problems.

02/04/2020

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