Alliance for rural America endorses Railroad Competition Act of 2007
Published Thursday, May 24, 2007
The Alliance for Rural America (ARA) has endorsed the Railroad Competition and Service Improvement Act of 2007 (H.R. 2125/S. 953).
Larry Mitchell, national spokesperson for ARA, had the following to say in support of the legislation: “Rural America depends on our rail system to deliver the food, fiber, lumber and fuel which we produce as well as the things we use to produce them. America, as a whole, needs the rail system for the same reasons. This bipartisan legislation is critically important to ensure that we all have access to competitive rail service as well as ensuring that rail customers without access to competition are protected from unreasonable railroad rates and practices.”
“The thirteen membership organizations of ARA, representing a combined membership of over 750,000 individual members, support public policy that will ensure that rail customers benefit from the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 as intended by Congress,” added Mitchell.
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