Bipartisan Group of Senators Ask Surface Transportation Board to Intervene in Rail
Senators called on the Surface Transportation Board to intervene with freight railroads, because manufacturers and agricultural producers are not getting reliable service. "If these problems persist into summer and fall, significant portions of the world's breadbasket could be cut off…
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from assisting those most in need...," said a letter, led by Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and signed by 19 other senators from both parties. They said some grain producers cannot contract to get a freight car, causing flour mills to shut down. They said that shipping vessels have waited to leave because of delays of rail arrivals of grain. The May 23 letter is supported by the National Grain and Feed Association, the National Mining Association, the American Chemistry Council and the ethanol trade association Growth Energy.