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Mitch Mcconnell voting record on railroads Amtrak and Transit?

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Mitch Mcconnell voting record on railroads Amtrak and Transit?
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Friday, January 13, 2017 1:49 PM

His wife is Elain Chaos future Transportaion Secratary husband and I expect that the two bedfellows will vote and think alike.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 8:59 AM

CandOforprogress2

His wife is Elain Chaos future Transportaion Secratary husband and I expect that the two bedfellows will vote and think alike.

 
And why would you think that?? Elizabeth Dole was Secretary of Transportation under bonzo and her spouse was a Senator from Kansas.  She was definitely her own person when it came to running her department.
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Posted by Norm48327 on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:29 AM

CSSHEGEWISCH
And why would you think that??

Because there are two posters on this forum who have to inject their political view into virtually every subject.

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Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:32 AM

Can someone please just answer the original questgion w/o any political statement?

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Posted by wanswheel on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 2:19 PM

https://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/53298/mitch-mcconnell#.WH5suWciyM8

Excerpt from Fortune, Jan. 21, 2016

Derek Kan is a Los Angeles-based general manager for Lyft, the on-demand ride company that seeks to modernize U.S. transportation. Now he's also a board member at Amtrak, which is in the midst of its own transformation.

Kan, a former Congressional and White House staffer, was suggested for the Amtrak position by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), for whom Kan had once worked as chief economist and policy advisor. He was then formally nominated by President Obama, approved by the U.S. Senate in December, and formally assumed the position this month…

"Historically, Amtrak has had a lot of knuckle draggers," Kan says. "Hardcore conservatives who want to burn the place down, to hardcore liberals who want to turn it into a government agency. I think McConnell and the White House asked me to join the board because they think I'm more reasonable, but with a point of view about what needs to be done."

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 7:07 PM

Uber and Lyft working with Amtrak to provide seemless Door to Hotel Door transportation?

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Posted by schlimm on Tuesday, January 17, 2017 10:30 PM

Norm48327

 

 
CSSHEGEWISCH
And why would you think that??

 

Because there are two posters on this forum who have to inject their political view into virtually every subject.

 

Only two?  A lot more than that and mostly conservatives.

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Posted by Geared Steam on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:44 PM

And the liberals scream the loudest.

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein

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