Grim and ridiculous news for the forthcoming high speed rail system:
House Transportation Committee Chair Rep. John Mica (R) of Florida said previous administration grants to high-speed rail projects were a failure, producing "snail speed trains to nowhere." He called Amtrak a "Soviet-style train system" and said it "hijacked" nearly all the administration's rail projects.
So we shouldn't expect the House Republicans, who are evidently living in 1956, to adequately fund this thing.