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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee pressing for bullet train between Houston and Dallas
Houston Chronicle ^ | April 5, 2012

Posted on 04/05/2012 11:23:00 AM PDT by BradtotheBone

Officials in Japan and South Korea are telling Houston-area Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee that they are interested in helping Texas build a high-speed rail line between Houston and Dallas.

The Houston Democrat said the foreign officials described their interest to her during an official congressional visit to Japan, South Korea and China.

“This is absolutely the right direction America should be moving toward,” said Jackson Lee, who traveled between Osaka and Tokyo on Japan’s world famous high speed rail system.

“We should be looking at high-speed rail that can provide clean, safe and efficient transportation that can move people from one destination to another,” the lawmaker said in a statement issued by her office.

Jackson Lee said she had fought hard to secure initial funding for Texas’ high-speed rail line from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The potential high-speed rail route between Houston and Dallas will include only one or two stops in between.

“Japanese and South Korean officials both expressed interest in supporting and providing high-speed rail in the state of Texas,” Jackson Lee’s statement said.

The lawmaker said she was working to arrange visits to Houston by the foreign officials so they could “see first-hand our needs and plans for an expanded rail transportation system.”

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.chron.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 112th; congreswoomaaaaaaan; houston; jacksonlee; rail
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1 posted on 04/05/2012 11:23:05 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

How long ‘til “bullet” is removed from liberal lexicon as verboten?


2 posted on 04/05/2012 11:24:51 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: BradtotheBone

If Sheila is for it, I’m agin’ it.


3 posted on 04/05/2012 11:25:51 AM PDT by Clara Lou (ABO! ABO! ABO!)
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To: BradtotheBone

A 16 trillion dollar debt...and these fools are talking about more spending for projects to help the unions and local contractors to steal more federal dough.

Nuts.


4 posted on 04/05/2012 11:26:56 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: BradtotheBone
Moonbat... send her to Mars.

5 posted on 04/05/2012 11:27:26 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Clara Lou

she thinks you can buy a kit at the model shop for $50.00 ,take 10 mins and bingo


6 posted on 04/05/2012 11:29:00 AM PDT by molson209
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To: BradtotheBone

When SJL gets on a bullet train, it moves at toy train speed.


7 posted on 04/05/2012 11:29:36 AM PDT by Wizdum (My job is to get you to shoot soda out your nose)
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To: BradtotheBone

Dang, I didn’t know there was an ammunition shortage in Dallas...


8 posted on 04/05/2012 11:30:37 AM PDT by Errant
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To: BradtotheBone
must...not...comment...
9 posted on 04/05/2012 11:30:53 AM PDT by TSgt (The only reason I have one in the chamber at all times, is because it is impossible to have two in.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Why? Southwest airlines have great round-trip rates.


10 posted on 04/05/2012 11:31:40 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: BradtotheBone

Strap a rocket on her back. Much faster and much cheaper.


11 posted on 04/05/2012 11:33:22 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: BradtotheBone

Its called American Eagle.


12 posted on 04/05/2012 11:33:54 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: BradtotheBone

Evidently a memo has been circulated amongst the dems that the best way to bring the country to its fiscal knees is to promote astronomically expensive feel-good boondoggle projects that will forever be a ball and chain around the ankles of the happless taxpayers financing their own ruin.


13 posted on 04/05/2012 11:34:41 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: BradtotheBone

in my experience, no one from Dallas ever wants to go to Houston.


14 posted on 04/05/2012 11:36:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BradtotheBone

Actually, She’s only asking for the train. Houston has plenty of flying bullets!


15 posted on 04/05/2012 11:39:31 AM PDT by Arcy
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To: evets

Great pic!


16 posted on 04/05/2012 11:40:14 AM PDT by Arcy
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To: freedomlover
High speed rail has been considered many times between Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston and a third line between Houston and San Antonio. It was never found to economically feasible. To a liberal however, anything is economically feasible.

Sheila Jackson Lee just needs a bullet train to her next photo op.

17 posted on 04/05/2012 11:43:40 AM PDT by BaylorDad (I can't always buy American, but when I can, it's not UAW!)
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To: BradtotheBone
This from the moron who thought that US astronauts landed on Mars
18 posted on 04/05/2012 11:45:59 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: BaylorDad

Anything IS economically feasible.

If you can get somebody else to pay for it.


19 posted on 04/05/2012 12:03:08 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: BradtotheBone

Bullet train? She ought to be pressing for a brain transplant for herself. Her IQ is so low it’s not measurable.


20 posted on 04/05/2012 12:09:06 PM PDT by Harley (Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
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