http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/08/congress.transitsecurity.ap/index.htmlThis is honestly the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Even after Madrid, the current budget devoted 4.7 billion to aviation, and only 32 million to railroads and subways, and even then the senate wanted to cut money. Democrat or Republican, it's just stupid. And if we have to lower expenses, then take away the tax cuts, take away welfare for all I care, as long as we're safe. It does not make sense, after Madrid, after the releasing of sarin gas in Japanese subways, to have made train safety such a low priority.
Yes, hindsight is 20/20, but when hundreds of people die in a train bombing, and a year later you vote to cut funding to train safety, that's not oversight, that's idiocy.
Does anyone know where I could get a roll call record of the Senate Appropriations Committee? To find out who voted to cut funding for rail security?
