{"id":68735,"date":"2023-10-26T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2023\/10\/26\/rural-representation-secured-on-amtrak-board\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:43:38","slug":"rural-representation-secured-on-amtrak-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2023\/10\/26\/rural-representation-secured-on-amtrak-board\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Rural Representation Secured On Amtrak Board"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking at a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee markup  last week, U.S. Senator Jon Tester, D-Mont., highlighted his successful push to force the Biden Administration to withdraw one of its Amtrak Board of Directors nominees  and replace them with someone outside of Amtrak\u2019s Northeast Corridor. Tester\u2019s comments follow a successful  months-long effort to secure  rural representation on the Amtrak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68922,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68735\/revisions\/68922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68735"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=68735"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=68735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}