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Politics : John Kerry for President Free speach thread NON-CENSORED
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From: geode002/18/2005 5:23:34 PM
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Which is, of course, what they're saying about Social Security. They have got to get more than one bullet in that playbook.
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"My purpose is not to kill Amtrak," Mineta said yesterday. "My purpose is to give it long-term viability."

Sen. Patty Murray (Wash.), the ranking Democrat of the Senate Transportation Appropriations Committee, said yesterday in a letter to Mineta that the proposal to bankrupt and reorganize Amtrak would "put at grave risk the travel options of every Amtrak rider, not just those riding the worst performing lines. This is an extraordinary, and in my view, dangerous turnaround in the administration's position regarding Amtrak."
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You mean Halliburton isn't bidding to run Amtrak as a private costplus, no-bid train system it can overcharge for?
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