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Ed Hamberger
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Ed Hamberger serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Railroads (AAR). Prior to joining the AAR in July 1998, he was a managing partner of the Washington, DC office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell. He came to the firm in 1989 after having served as Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs at the Department of Transportation. Hamberger began his career in transportation in 1977 as General Counsel of the National Transportation Policy Study Commission. In 1985, he was appointed as a member of the Private Sector Advisory Panel on Infrastructure Financing and in 1994 served as a member of the Presidential Commission on Intermodal Transportation. He currently serves on the Blue Ribbon Panel of Transportation Experts, appointed by the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. Hamberger received his Juris Doctor, and both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
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October 28, 2011 02:30 PM
Freight Rail Knows How It’s Done
Investing in infrastructure is an excellent way to create jobs. We know, because freight railroads have been doing it for 30 years.
Through billions of dollars in infrastructure investment every year, the nation’s freight railroads have created a world-class rail network that meets the demands of American businesses and consumers. This year alone, the freight rail industry is projected to spend a record $12 billion in capital expenditures and hire 15,000 new workers. That $12 billion is going to projects across the country, from routine track maintenance to new intermodal centers to vast public-private partnerships—just the kind of infrastructure improvements that the Administration is looking for. And, because freight railroads are privately-owned, these investments come at virtually no cost to the taxpayer. In the past three decades, freight railroads have invested approximately $480 billion back into the rail network in order to make it the safest, most cost-effective and efficient way to bring American goods to market while saving American consumers billion
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