Letter with 19 Senate Signatures - February 5, 2003

Nineteen Senators signed a letter to Senate appropriators urging full funding for Amtrak in fiscal 2003, at the level of $1.2 billion (as approved by the Senate on January 16). The number was limited, deliberately, so that equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats appeared. Amtrak says it needs that amount in order to avoid a shutdown crisis in the spring.

Here are the names of the 19 (9 Republicans, 9 Democrats, 1 Independent):

Cal. - Feinstein (D.)
Del. - Biden (D.), Carper (D.)
Ill. - Durbin (D.)
La. - Breaux (D.)
Me. - Collins (R.), Snowe (R.)
Md. - Sarbanes (D.)
Minn. - Coleman (R.)
Mont. - Burns (R.)
N.J. - Lautenberg (D.)
Pa. - Specter (R.)
R.I. - Chafee (R.), Reed (D.)
S.C. - Hollings (D.)
Tex. - Hutchison (R.)
Va. - Warner (R.), Allen (R.)
Vt. - Jeffords (I.)