House Votes to Strip High-Speed Rail Funding

This morning, the House voted 232-182 for an Energy and Water Appropriations bill that redirects $1 billion of high-speed rail money to flood relief for the Midwest. Of course midwestern flood victims need relief. What does that have to do with high speed rail? Photo: NOAA Never mind that that flood relief won’t arrive for many months, [...]

Source: http://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/07/15/house-votes-to-strip-high-speed-rail-funding/

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