Re: Republican Assemblymembers Attack High Speed Rail? Nah, just some free headlines for a politician-the legislature could fix this, but doesn't want to.
Author: BOB2-
Date: 01-28-2025 - 07:29

FUD Wrote:
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> To be pedantic, Congress (also the President if
> you accept his claim that he can simply withhold
> funds already approved by Congress - that's the
> constitutional question) can, with majority votes
> in both Houses, block new funding for CAHSR. "Claw
> back" of funds already-appropriated and obligated
> is also possible, but more difficult.
>
> If CA wants to keep building HSR, using
> non-federal funds, it can, regardless of Trumen
> bluster. Obviously, it's unlikely that things will
> be completed, even on just the Valley segment, in
> any reasonable timeframe with state-only funds.

This Republican Assemblyman just wants some free and easy attention, not a solution.

My opinion of the state of the CAHSRA fiasco has always been that changing the legislation could remove many of the incentives for waste, gold plating, and bloat. Changing the planning and project performance and selection criteria to require cost benefit analysis and value engineering could have saved billions of dollars that have been wasted on the first phase from Wasco to Chowchilla. That is now "water under the bridge", and the present boondoggle is too late to fix.

The fact is that 1/3 of the CA legislature would vote for such reforms tomorrow. But the other two thirds are against reform. One third are most of the Republicans who would rather have the issue than reforms, and the other third are Democrats like those in the Scott Wiener circle, who are the campaign beneficiaries of the contractors and construction unions who feed at the taxpayer slopped CAHSRA hog trough.

I expect no more Federal taxpayer money from the current Congress for the runaway money train, and I see almost no possibility of any further bond measures passing in CA, given the disastrous mismanagement of the CAHSRA fiasco.

The "Plan B", to hook it up to ACE and the SJ's is being quietly implemented, which is why there is no funding proposed for the Pacheco fiasco.

The issue of Presidents' "impounding" money obligated through Congressional appropriations is supposedly established "case law", but this "rule of law" theory seems to be a bit of a "work in progress" these days.

So, will existing signed full funding agreements and Congressional appropriations be "taken back" by proclamations issued from the "leader"?

As the Zen Master likes to say: "We'll see?"



Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Republican Assemblymembers Attack High Speed Rail Commenter 01-27-2025 - 13:30
  Enlighten everyone. How is President Trump trying to amend the constitution? Kraut 01-27-2025 - 14:09
  Re: Enlighten everyone. How is President Trump trying to amend the constitution? TOMN2 01-27-2025 - 16:33
  Re: Enlighten everyone. How is President Trump trying to amend the constitution? ProfessionalAmtrak 01-27-2025 - 16:37
  Re: Enlighten everyone. How is President Trump trying ? Fang 01-27-2025 - 18:20
  Re: Enlighten everyone. How is President Trump trying to amend the constitution? Commuter 01-28-2025 - 14:09
  With a response like that, or lack thereof, just goes to show you have no clue Kraut 01-27-2025 - 17:11
  Re: With a response like that, or lack thereof, just goes to show you have no clue TOMN2 01-27-2025 - 17:40
  Thanks for proving my point without providing any examples yourself. Kraut 01-27-2025 - 17:57
  Re: Thanks for proving my point without providing any examples yourself. TOMN2 01-27-2025 - 18:06
  For the lame at heart Born 2b free 01-27-2025 - 16:36
  Time for you to educate yourself (if you can) on the executive order and the Wong Kim Ark case, instead of regurgitating the lamestream media. Kraut 01-27-2025 - 17:21
  Re: Time for you to educate yourself (if you can) on the executive order and the Wong Kim Ark case, instead of regurgitating the lamestream media. TOMN2 01-27-2025 - 18:00
  And yet, those two exclusions have yet to be adjudicated, contrary to your opinion (or should I say a copy and paste). They eventually will by the Supreme Court Kraut 01-27-2025 - 18:08
  Re: And yet, those two exclusions have yet to be adjudicated, contrary to your opinion (or should I say a copy and paste). They eventually will by the Supreme Court TOMN2 01-27-2025 - 19:24
  Specifics of How President Trump is trying to amend the constitution Commenter 01-27-2025 - 16:46
  Oh look, more opinion pieces from the far left having a hissy fit. Kraut 01-27-2025 - 17:29
  Re: Oh look, more opinion pieces from the far left having a hissy fit. TOMN2 01-27-2025 - 18:04
  Boy, you are going to have a tough four years ahead of you. Kraut 01-27-2025 - 18:12
  You asked for specifics. I gave them. Your only reply was insults. Commenter 01-27-2025 - 19:15
  Re: Boy, you are going to have a tough four years ahead of you. TOMN2 01-27-2025 - 19:20
  Re: Republican Assemblymembers Attack High Speed Rail Once you take away the hyperbole... 01-27-2025 - 19:20
  Re: Republican Assemblymembers Attack High Speed Rail FUD 01-27-2025 - 21:16
  Re: Republican Assemblymembers Attack High Speed Rail? Nah, just some free headlines for a politician-the legislature could fix this, but doesn't want to. BOB2- 01-28-2025 - 07:29
  Re: Republican Assemblymembers Attack High Speed Rail? Nah, just some free headlines for a politician-the legislature could fix this, but doesn't want to. Ref 01-28-2025 - 16:55
  Re: Republican Assemblymembers Attack High Speed Rail? Nah, just some free headlines for a politician-the legislature could fix this, but doesn't want to. BOB2- 01-29-2025 - 00:58


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