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The rail industry has spent $654 million lobbying Congress and state legislators over the last two decades. The top federal recipients of BNSF Railway PAC cash during the 2022 campaign in the House of Representatives were Kelly Armstrong, a Republican from North Dakota,. Gahakeem Jeffries, the Democrat from New York, is now next in line to be the Speaker of the House. Open Secret says the rail industry spent $60.3 million in lobbying just in 20 states, including California, Texas, and New York. Chris Delusio, who sponsored a new House bill aimed at imposing more strict regulations on trains carrying dangerous chemicals, said this week that the money that flows through the political system is