[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 137 (Monday, August 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5607]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2190. Mr. DURBIN (for himself and Mr. Blumenthal) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. 
Schumer (for Ms. Sinema (for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. 
Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for 
Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and transit programs, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

        At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. AUTHORIZATION OF AMTRAK TO BRING A CIVIL ACTION TO 
                   ENFORCE ITS PREFERENCE RIGHTS.

       (a) In General.--Section 24308(c) of title 49, United 
     States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: 
     ``Notwithstanding sections 24103(a) and 24308(f), Amtrak 
     shall have the right to bring an action for equitable or 
     other relief in the United States District Court for the 
     District of Columbia to enforce the preference rights granted 
     under this subsection.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 24103(a)(1) of title 49, 
     United States Code, is amended by inserting ``and section 
     24308(c)'' before ``, only the Attorney General''.
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