Letter with 52 Senate Signatures - June 17, 2002
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SIGNERS OF SENATE LETTER URGING AMTRAK FUNDING
June 17,
2002
Fifty-two Senators signed a letter to appropriations leaders urging that the
transportation appropriations bill for 2003 (not yet introduced) include $1.2
billion for Amtrak. This is the amount that Amtrak said in early February, 2002,
it needed in order to survive through fiscal 2003. Here are the names of the 52:
| Arkansas | Lincoln (D.) | |
| California | Boxer (D.) | Feinstein (D.) |
| Connecticut | Dodd (D.) | Lieberman (D.) |
| Delaware | Biden (D.) | Carper (D.) |
| Florida | Graham (D.) | Nelson (D.) |
| Georgia | Cleland (D.) | |
| Hawaii | Akaka (D.) | Inouye (D.) |
| Illinois | Durbin (D.) | |
| Indiana | Bayh (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 Carolina | Edwards (D.) | |
| North Dakota | Conrad (D.) | Dorgan (D.) |
| Ohio | DeWine (R.) | |
| Pennsylvania | Santorum (R.) | Specter (R.) |
| Rhode Island | Chafee (R.) | Reed (D.) |
| South Carolina | Hollings (D.) | |
| South Dakota | Johnson (D.) | |
| Vermont | Jeffords (I.) | Leahy (D.) |
| Virginia | Allen (R.) | Warner (R.) |
| Washington | Cantwell (D.) | |
| West Virginia | Rockefeller (D.) | |
| Wisconsin | Feingold (D.) | Kohl (D.) |