Subject: John Boehner: ‘Stupid’ to link Amtrak cuts to Philly derailment - Jake Sherman - POLITICO
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Alexander S. Mackler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 12:23:41 -0400

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> John Boehner: ‘Stupid’ to link Amtrak cuts to Philly derailment
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> Speaker John Boehner said it’s “stupid” to ask questions about whether cuts in Amtrak funding were to blame for the deadly train derailment in Philadelphia this week.
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> “Are you really going to ask such a stupid question?” Boehner said Thursday, cutting off a reporter as she asked about criticism that the railway isn’t adequately funded.
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> “Listen, you know, they started this yesterday, it’s all about funding, it’s all about funding. Well, obviously it’s not about funding,” Boehner added. “The train was going twice the speed limit. Adequate funds are there, no money’s been cut from rail safety and the House passed a bill earlier this spring to reauthorize Amtrak, and authorize a lot of these programs. And it’s hard for me to imagine that people take the bait on some of the nonsense that gets spewed around here.”
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> Notably, House Republicans cut Amtrak funding in a spending bill the Appropriations Committee passed on Wednesday. And the GOP has been consistently skeptical about the train line’s management of federal dollars.
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