Proposed House bill would cut HSR, Amtrak funds

House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers has announced a partial list of 70 spending cuts that will be included in an upcoming Continuing Resolution (CR) bill. The CR legislation will fund the federal government for the seven months remaining in the fiscal year and prevent a government wide shut-down, while significantly reducing the massive increases in discretionary spending enacted in the last several years by a Democrat majority. The total spending cuts in the CR will exceed $74 billion, including $58 billion in non-security discretionary spending reductions. “Never before has Congress undertaken a task of this magnitude,” said Chairman Rogers. “The cuts in this CR will represent the largest reduction in discretionary spending in the history of our nation.”   Railway-impacted spending cuts include:   ·         Clean Coal Technology   -$18M ·         High Speed Rail   -$1B ·         Amtrak   -$224M