[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 198 (Friday, December 1, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H6066-H6067]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               EXPANDING PASSENGER RAIL IN NORTHERN OHIO

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to draw attention to the U.S. 
Department of Transportation to develop intercity passenger rail 
corridors across our Great Lakes region from Chicago to Cleveland.
  We in the Great Lakes noticed the attention that the Department of 
Transportation pays to the East Coast and the West Coast, but please 
don't forget our Great Lakes northern region.
  Take a look at the I-80/-90 corridor and think about that already 
being carved into the landscape. Use it.
  In 2021, I joined other Great Lakes Members of Congress to urge 
Amtrak to retool its connect on U.S. 2035 Plan, which then excluded 
improvements to the Cleveland to Chicago corridor. To this day, we 
continue to lack daytime passenger rail service across this highly 
congested rail corridor and, of course, constricted Chicago. Boy, does 
it need help.
  Our constituents deserve better. Leaders from the U.S. Department of 
Transportation; State, local, and regional Departments of 
Transportation; planning agencies; advocacy organizations; labor 
unions; and the private

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sector have joined together to address this longstanding constriction 
to economic growth.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask DOT: Please see us, hear us, help us.

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