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Metro brings word that yesterday, the House of Representatives approved an amended version of the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008, H.R. 2095. While the bill's main financial purpose is to allocate $13.06 billion in federal funds over the next five years to Amtrak, it also includes $1.5 billion in appropriations for Metro to make capital improvements in the next ten years - vital funds for WMATA. The bill, mended into one collective document after two attempts at passage in each legislative body stalled during last year's Congressional session, is expected to pass easily in the Senate after unanimous bipartisan approval in the House.
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We went to the Macy's at 12th & G this morning for the Black Friday morning specials. There was a sh
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so is this the money that tom davis promised if dc, md, and va would pony up their own dedicated funding sources, or is it something else?
I was wondering the same thing...
I guess this explains why Metro was looking to move its location. Free money that won't go to all of these $11 billion necessary improvements.
"expected to pass easily in the Senate after unanimous bipartisan approval in the House"
Really? Sen. Coburn's not going to use his "a legislature of one" technique to prevent the bill from getting to the floor? Because that's what's been holding it up until now.
In the Senate, a single Senator can object to placing the bill on the calendar.
I think it is the bill that requires DC/MD/VA to pony up too. I've read (and can't remember where) that DC and MD have already identified dedicated funding for metro but VA is stalling. I'm not surprised there's a problem getting Richmond and downstate VA to care about metro for NOVA. How about an excise on chewing tobacco and whiskey?
NOVA needs to effing secede and take its money with it. Let those Marlboro smoking banjo playing toothless inbreds in Richmond try and survive on what they're making off diminishing tobacco revenues. West Virginia seems to be doing alright, thanks to their feisty pleistecene-era senator.
Isn't this the part where Martin et al. start complaining that congress needs to stay out of local issues?
See, that's different, because to the Council, public transportation can do no wrong and guns want to kill your mommma and rape your livestock. I maintain that guns are superior in all respects to most transit options because you can use guns to obtain transportation in almost any circumstance. Try it some time: walk onto a bus or next to a car at a stoplight or even a small-engine plane and stick a gun in the driver's face and tell them where you want to go. Through the magic of superior firepower, you can get where you need to go in the fastest time possible. Why be bored out of your skull, trapped in a morning commute, when you can indulge in high-speed inter-vehicle shooting matches? Make getting a quart of milk and a box of tampons a kickass adventure, complete with cops in pursuit and a roadscape filled with dead pedestrians, bikers, and fellow motorists. Indulge your inner maniac by smoking a bunch of crack and driving through street festivals. Well, that's been done already, but you get the picture.
Instead of begging for more funding for an outtdated transit system, we should be providing gun vouchers to low-income residents so that they can obtain transportation (and food, clothing, grillz, blunts, Rap Snacks, etc). Firearms ownership improves self-esteem, and teaches self-reliance as well as how to lead a moving target. These are essential skills to survive the coming econocataclysm, which will totally be fixed in a second Mccain administration.
ist full of dollars: You're not seriously asking that, right?
oh jesus, monkey, i have seen the light.
plus, you just made me snort yogurt out my nose.
maybe!
No, wait. There he goes.
Sen. Coburn's blocking it. Just like last time.