SIGNERS OF SENATE LETTER URGING PREVENTION OF AMTRAK CRISIS
June 25, 2002
Fifty Senators signed a letter to President Bush urging cooperation in
adding $205 million to the pending emergency supplemental appropriations bill.
That amount is intended to get Amtrak through its immediate cash crisis, and
avoid a shutdown of all Amtrak services, many commuter rail services, and even
some freight services. Here are the names of the 50:
| Arkansas | Lincoln (D.) | |
| California | Boxer (D.) | Feinstein (D.) |
| Connecticut | Dodd (D.) | Lieberman (D.) |
| Delaware | Biden (D.) | Carper (D.) |
| Florida | Nelson (D.) | |
| Georgia | Cleland (D.) | Miller (D.) |
| Hawaii | Inouye (D.) | |
| Illinois | Durbin (D.) | |
| Indiana | Bayh (D.) | |
| Iowa | Harkin (D.) | |
| Louisiana | Breaux (D.) | Landrieu (D.) |
| Maine | Collins (R.) | Snowe (R.) |
| Maryland | Mikulski (D.) | Sarbanes (D.) |
| Massachusetts | Kennedy (D.) | Kerry (D.) |
| Michigan | Levin (D.) | Stabenow (D.) |
| Minnesota | Dayton (D.) | Wellstone (D.) |
| Montana | Baucus (D.) | |
| Nebraska | Nelson (D.) | |
| Nevada | Reid (D.) | |
| New Jersey | Corzine (D.) | Torricelli (D.) |
| New Mexico | Bingaman (D.) | |
| New York | Clinton (D.) | Schumer (D.) |
| North Dakota | Conrad (D.) | Dorgan (D.) |
| Oregon | Wyden (D.) | |
| Pennsylvania | Specter (R.) | |
| Rhode Island | Chafee (R.) | Reed (D.) |
| South Carolina | Hollings (D.) | |
| South Dakota | Daschle (D.) | Johnson (D.) |
| Vermont | Jeffords (I.) | Leahy (D.) |
| Washington | Cantwell (D.) | Murray (D.) |
| West Virginia | Byrd (D.) | Rockefeller (D.) |
| Wisconsin | Kohl (D.) |