Hotline #1,003: Amtrak President Spends Day on Capitol Hill; NARP Looks to Members for...

Check Out Our Newest Hotline! NARP thanks those members who have sent in industry-related news stories, op-eds, editorials, or letters to the editor from your communities. We include them in our social media efforts, along with the weekly Hotline. Please send your news items to Bob Brady, bbrady@xenophonstrategies.com, and we will continue to share it with the membership. We also ask members to send events that we can put on the website, here. And please follow NARP on Facebook and Twitter. This past Wednesday, Amtrak President and CEO Wick Moorman was on Capitol Hill testifying before the Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Moorman focused on the future of Amtrak and the need for a “new era of investment” to make that future possible. He argued that federal investment will help Amtrak upgrade its infrastructure, improve its equipment fleet (including National Network trains) and stations in the Northeast Corridor,

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