04/13/2021
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"There is no successful model of operating a system of any great size more efficiently and contracting it out. Hasn't worked."
"They come up with this phenomenal number of $51 per passenger on Amtrak. But they ignore the bulk of the passengers."
"This is the only form of transportation that the Federal Government subsidizes. Well, that is blatantly not true."
"If we go back to the proposal in H.R. 7, which would mandate outsourcing the long-distance routes to the lowest bidder, but then would transfer the operating grants to the lowest bidder, I am puzzled ..."