Posted on 12/10/2004 11:54:52 AM PST by John Jorsett
Washington -- Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta, named Thursday to serve in President Bush's second-term Cabinet, vowed to press a controversial plan to overhaul Amtrak financing in order to end "a drain on the budget."
Mineta, 73, the former Democratic mayor and House member from San Jose, said in an interview that he would work to win congressional approval for the pending plan to reduce federal spending on the government-subsidized rail system by shifting a greater burden to states served by Amtrak on the East and West coasts.
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White House spokesman Scott McClellan on Thursday announced Bush's decision to keep Mineta and three other Cabinet secretaries for the second- term Cabinet, including Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson.
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I. cannot. believe. that. Bush. reappointed. this. bozo.
He's the reason the TSA screeners are throwing elderly women against the wall while young Arab men walk onto planes unimpeded.
Second term agenda same as the first: strip search grannies and blond six year old children, ignore arab males because it might be politically incorrect to "profile." Mineta should be fired from the cabinet.
My favorite: Moron Mineta
bush also likes Kofi Annan, and saw Putin's soul, so there ya go.
I guess privatization is too revolutionary, huh?
Sweet goodness - get this nitwit outta there.
Amtrack has been fixed so much, that we cannot afford any more goverment fixes of anything.
Government is the problem, not the answer.
"The assignments include screening all individuals with access to secure areas of airports against the governmentwide terrorist watch list"
This is an assignment? As in, "not yet accomplished"?
I thought is liberal POS. Would have been thrown out long ago. He is one of the main reason the airline pilots are not armed.
IT shows just how much you can trust the "Two-Party Cartel". Remember at the off election in 2006 it would be best for all to support a true conservative to go to congress. By this time you will see that NO conservative Supreme Court in going to happen. What you might see is the start of a true revolution. Remember illegals have more freedoms here than us taxpayers.
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