reaching an agreement on sharing delay costs... we strongly urge Amtrak to address the potentially hundreds of millions of dollars the MTA has incurred due to delays caused by Amtrak. These costs should not fall on New York State or Connecticut taxpayers.
Urge Amtrak to reach an agreement with the MTA to reimburse delay costs caused by Amtrak.
Occurrences
[We] strongly urge Amtrak to address the potentially hundreds of millions of dollars the MTA has incurred due to delays caused by Amtrak. These costs should not fall on New York State or Connecticut taxpayers.
Representatives Jim Himes, Rosa DeLauro, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ritchie Torres, and George Latimer sent a letter to Roger ... urging Amtrak to prioritize Penn Station Access and reimburse MTA for delay costs.
Evidence
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"Himes, DeLauro, Ocasio-Cortez, Torres, and Latimer Urge Amtrak to Prioritize Penn Station Access and Reimburse MTA for Delay Costs" (May 15, 2026) appears as the latest press release on Himes’s official site, noting that the lawmakers sent a letter to Roger...
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The same official press-release page shows the item in the 30-day lookback window, indicating the issue remained active and publicized by Himes as of April 29, 2026 through May 15, 2026.
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Official House release dated May 15 says Himes and four other lawmakers sent Amtrak a letter urging the agency to prioritize Penn Station Access and to reach an agreement with the MTA on reimbursing delay costs. The release says some progress had been made, but two key issues remained outstanding.
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Himes's official House release says he and other lawmakers sent a letter to Amtrak President Roger Harris urging Amtrak to prioritize Penn Station Access and reach an agreement with the MTA on reimbursing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in delay costs caused by Amtrak.
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The letter calls on Amtrak to prioritize the capital work necessary to achieve full service by early 2029 and to reach an agreement with the MTA on reimbursing the potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in delay costs caused by Amtrak, costs that should not fall on New York and Connecticut taxpayers.
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"to reach an agreement with the MTA on reimbursing the potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in delay costs caused by Amtrak"
Assessments
The promise was to urge Amtrak to reach an agreement with the MTA, not to secure the agreement itself. The official May 15, 2026 House release documents that Himes joined other lawmakers in sending Amtrak a letter specifically urging prioritization of Penn Station Access and an agreement with the MTA on reimbursing delay costs. Because that action occurred while Himes was serving in federal office, the timing is same_term. No separate evidence of a completed reimbursement agreement is needed for this narrower promise.
The promise was to urge Amtrak to make an agreement with the MTA on reimbursing delay costs, not to personally complete the reimbursement agreement. The evidence shows that on May 15, 2026, Himes and other lawmakers sent Amtrak a formal letter explicitly urging it to reach that agreement. That is a concrete official action matching the promise, taken while Himes was in office. The fact that the reimbursement issue itself remained unresolved does not negate delivery of this advocacy-focused promise.
Available evidence shows Himes took concrete action on the promise by joining a May 15, 2026 letter urging Amtrak to reimburse the MTA for delay costs. That demonstrates meaningful effort in office, but the record provided does not show that Amtrak and the MTA actually reached an agreement or that reimbursement was secured. Because the promised outcome was to urge Amtrak to reach an agreement, and we have evidence of the urging but not of any resulting agreement or completed resolution, the promise is best classified as unresolved rather than delivered.