It sets the framework we are now operating under and we will be looking at a reauthorization in the next congress and it is very important. Let me say whether we abuilding highspeed rail, innercity Passenger Rail, transit services, any kind of infrastructure highways you would not want to build the four lane highway where there are no passengers or vehicles with access that you would not want to build a city Transit System where you dont have adequate capacity and passengers to use that facility, the same thing holds true anymore with passenger service. When i heard president obama and this administration, beginning to promote high speed rail, unfortunately most of the money, the 10 billion, does not go for highspeed rail. They chose instead to support almost 150 projects and that number is growing and a lot of that money has been left behind. In fact, most of the money that has been read dedicated to high speed rail has been sent back by states including my state, the state of florida
In 2006 president bush signed the bill on the lawn of the white house with members of congress from both parties there in large numbers. We reaffirm our commitment to build that same type of coalition for the necessary legislative response to the Supreme Courts action. And we reaffirm our commitment o do that today. Hi, im Wade Henderson with the Leadership Conference on civil and human rights. I just want to acknowledge some of the leaders who are here today who joined in this really important and constructive meeting with the president. Theres cheryl, the president director council of the naacp, Legal Defense and educational fund. Barbara who is executive director and president of the Lawyers Committee, the civil rights under law. Which by the way is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year having been founded by president kennedy in response to violence against those who sought to register voters in the past. Tom, who is president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and educatio