This is the text of Senate Amendment 1502, offered in the Senate by Majority Leader Schumer on May 18, 2021 to the "Endless Frontier Act" (S. 1260, 117th Congress). 

Public transit hopes to win back riders after crushing year

“It’s a major upgrade,” said Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, who describes the amount of proposed investment in particular for electric buses as “phenomenal.” Share

This PDF file contains the text of prepared remarks from National Railroad Passenger Corporation chairman David Kendall and a press kit describing the route system to be served by the railroad, both of which are from a March 22, 1971 press conference.

These are talking points and call assignments given to members of the National Railroad Passenger Corporations's Board of Incorporators in preparation for telephone calls the incorporators were to make to members of Congress on March 19, 1971 to notify Congress of the final routes selected for the corporation (later to be known as Amtrak) to serve.

Opinion: Republicans make Biden an infrastructure offer he has to refuse

Republicans are actually proposing to cut public transit funding to levels below the existing baseline, according to calculations from Jeff Davis. Share

Apples to apples, the Senate GOP infrastructure proposal is smaller than it appears

Jeff Davis breaks down current federal infrastructure proposals from the Biden administration and the GOP. Share

This large PDF file is of a 273-page 3-ring binder presented to the Board of Incorporators of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation by their McKinsey and Co. consultant team in March 1971 so that the board could make the final decisions on which specific routes the new railroad should service when it began service (as Amtrak) on May 1, 1971. 

This is a PDF of a December 29, 1970 report from consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to the Board of Incorporators of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation on how to organize the new railroad. The incorporators accepted the proposal with little change and it became the blueprint for establishing what is now called Amtrak.

This large PDF file is the bound 190-page compilation of the minutes of the meetings of the Board of Incorporators of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, held from December 22, 1970 to March 30, 1971. 

Here’s how the GOP infrastructure plan stacks up against Biden’s transportation plans

Jeff Davis examined what Biden and Senate Republicans are proposing to spend on roads, transit, rail, airports and safety programs over five years, calculating the numbers at $720 billion and $437 billion, respectively. Share