Speakers were (from left) Dr. Bill Hamilton, co-author of the Amtrak Accounting analysis series published in Passenger Train Journal; Amtrak Board member Ralph Kerchum; California State Senator Jim Mills; Andrew C. Selden, then called the "dean of Amtrak critics," and co-author of the Amtrak Accounting analysis; RailPAC founding founding President Byron Nordberg; and Louis Thompson of the FRA’s Northeast Corridor Improvement Project.