It is. Suppose you find it becomes deficient.

I do not know if that is true, but I would hope that that would not be true.

I think it was you--or somebody--said 'I do not see why any industry should be treated differently.'

I am one of those who tends to think that mergers kind of keep taking place until they cannot anymore.

Everything you are saying... is really affirming an answer to a question that I gave to you.

Now, obviously within the airline industry, the public would rebel.

I have been a Governor for 8 years and I have been doing this for some time.

Is that an example of the kind of thing that could be looked at in terms of prices that are not quoted on clearly and predictably to be used rail service lines?

There has to be a follow-up on all of this was my point.

Now, is that a way of saying that until we change the law, you are stuck?

And they do not have the protection, of course, that railroads do.

Trackage rights gets interestingly close to bottleneck, does it not?

We have one industry which has exemption under antitrust. You do not.

In the context of the merger, yes. I would not be wrong, right, in saying that?

Again, if I am taking a flight to Fargo, which I have done--I have not been invited back, but I did it once--and let us say I have to make a switch.

Does that not fit under the definition of enhanced competition?

I think it is terribly, terribly important that we do not have railroad companies going to Subcommittee Members telling them what letters they ought to write.

I think that becomes very important because enhanced competition is not only a function of price, but it is a function of service.