'Hunter Biden has spent a lot of time on Amtrak trains': How senator's son got train board appointment
by Joseph Simonson
| October 21, 2019 10:06 AM
When Hunter Biden came before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in June 2006 for his nomination hearing for a seat on the Amtrak's Board of Directors , he was paired with a second nominee, career transportation official Donna McLean.
McLean, a Republican, and Biden, a Democrat, were both nominated by President George W. Bush. At that point, McLean had been an analyst at the U.S. Department of Transportation and for six years worked on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. She would go on to be a high-ranking Transportation Department official in the Obama administration.
Biden, by comparison, was a lobbyist with the firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair, with no transportation experience to speak of. But his name was more than familiar to senators — his father, Sen. Joe Biden, was into his 33rd year representing Delaware and would become vice president two-and-a-half years later. Hunter Biden, then 36, was also a frequent train rider from his home state to Washington, D.C.
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