Otto M. Vondrak photo By Passenger Train Journal Staff WASHINGTON — Amtrak would be required to resume daily long-distance passenger train service if Congress passes a new round of COVID-19 funding. This week, the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure released a funding proposal that would include $1.5 billion for Amtrak and $30 billion for transit. Besides having to resume daily passenger service on all of its long-distance routes, most of which were cut down to tri-weekly last fall, the railroad would have to bring back thousands of employees that were furloughed. In a letter to the new Congress last month, Flynn said the passenger railroad needed more funding to stave off additional cuts resulting from the pandemic, but that it not only wanted to resume normal service as soon as possible it wants to expand it and serve new communities.