[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 99 (Friday, June 16, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D745]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RAIL ASSISTANCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded hearings on S. 
920, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1996 for rebuilding and 
improving the rail lines serving smaller cities and rural areas, and to 
discuss the future of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
(Amtrak), after receiving testimony from Mortimer L. Downey, Deputy 
Secretary of Transportation; Thomas Downs, President and Chairman, 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); South Dakota Deputy 
Secretary of Transportation Dean Schofield, Pierre; Mayor John Robert 
Smith, Meridian, Mississippi, on behalf of the Amtrak Regional Forum 
Workshop; and Edwin L. Harper, Association of American Railroads, 
William E. Loftus, American Short Line Railroad Association, Peter 
Gilbertson, Regional Railroads of America, Craig Lentzsch, Greyhound, 
Inc., on behalf of the American Bus Association, and Sonny Hall, Safe 
Transit and Rail Transportation (START), on behalf of the Transport 
Workers Union, all of Washington, D.C.