Subject: RE: Follow Up Meeting with Amtrak
From: "John Parola" <[email-masked]>
To: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Michael Sweeney" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:06:55 +0000

Excellent , Thank you

From: Eric Schwerin [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 2:04 PM
To: John Parola
Cc: Michael Sweeney; Hunter Biden
Subject: Re: Follow Up Meeting with Amtrak

John-

The Senators to target would be:

Moran-KS
Hoeven-ND
Daines-MT
Gardner-CO
Kirk-IL
Boozman-AR

Let me know if you have any other questions on them.

I am attaching a power point presentation Amtrak put together on their funding request.  I wouldn’t distribute this beyond HNTB but it is a good document for you to use in any of your discussions with the above members.

Thanks,

Eric

Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC
1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Suite 705
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 333-1880
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On Jul 10, 2015, at 6:53 AM, John Parola <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Hunter & Eric:  We had a very good meeting with Joe and Brian.  We talked about a number of subjects as follows and in no priority order.

••         HNTB wanted to help Amtrak, we personally wanted to help Amtrak and that is our main reason for being here

••         Gateway and the challenges

••         The funding challenges for Amtrak

••         Engineering roadbed challenges

••         Amtrak a national network

••         The Southwest Chief Issue (Which we understand was worked out with BN)

••         How Amtrak was having to have to use revenues from the NEC to support long distance trains

••         The Tunnel insurance status

••         HNTB???s project performance

••         The Philadelphia Derailment

••         Procurement utilizing QBS selection

••         And a few additional general topics

Joe was engaged and quite open and good to talk to. He said if we could help him with the rural senators / congressman in states where the long distance trains were running and if they could shift their position on Amtrak it could potentially free up $300 Million that he was going to have to use from the NEC for their continued operation.  He mentioned one name Senator Hovan I believe from North Dakota.  I know there are others and if you can identify the specific individuals where we could help to get the Amtrak message out to and the importance of the NEC as an economic engine for the country and more that would be very useful for us as we work across the country.  My request to you is to please provide the names and states where we could possibly help.

Lastly, it was good to see you and thank you for meeting with us and for helping to set up this meeting.

Take Care, John

John J. Parola

Sr. Vice President, Northeast Division

HNTB Corporation

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New York, NY 10001

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