Amtrak offshoring jobs?

From a news release issued today by Sen. Robert C. Byrd:

America’s national railroad should not have its jobs outsourced to foreign countries, U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., said on Thursday.
Amtrak’s senior management recently informed Byrd and Murray that the railroad’s Board of Directors, all appointed by the Bush Administration, will invite private vendors to take over major parts of its national reservation system, including vendors based overseas.
"After having to fight to keep Amtrak alive in the face of budgets that would have put the railroad into bankruptcy, now we are fighting to keep Amtrak’s jobs here in the United States,” the Senators explained. “Amtrak is America’s railroad. It is funded in part with American tax dollars. Its jobs should be American jobs.”

Okay, I'm all for Amtrak. But it should pay more of its way. On the other hand, why subsidize jobs overseas? I have to side with Byrd on this one.