Is the status quo acceptable? Bashar Assad with the Russians' equipment and the Hezbollah leader announcing that they are all in?

This is a pretty bloody, bloody business that they have been in.

What Senator John McCain saw in his trip inside Syria and the action he thinks America should take right now.

No one that I know, including General Andress (ph) and his battalion commanders, are asking for American boots on the ground.

When I hear from teachers and public safety officials and we talk from all the different Government agencies where we have seen so many cuts and so many things that affected people in their everyday lives.

I understand some of your members are concerned about the Authority's use of eminent domain.

It seems a lot of the concern is getting San Francisco and L.A. connected in a quick manner.

It really started to scare those constituents because it is a way that they were able to get up to Hanford or Fresno to see doctors.

I have only been in Congress for about 5 months, but I served 2 years before that in the California State Legislature.

Would you build the first section from Fresno to Bakersfield if you knew there was never going to be any additional funding?

There is still no money to fund anything connecting the southern tip of this with any of the population south of Bakersfield--Palmdale, L.A., nothing.

Why did the Authority reject the offer from the French high-speed rail company, and supposedly one of the best in the world?

Joe Simitian actually did a wonderful job on the floor if anybody has a chance to listen to his speech, because he has always been a supporter. But he voted against the project when I was there.

Have you done an independent risk analysis for this first construction segment?

What do you mean as the people also get for this investment? Do we get a high-speed rail service?

As I have explained numerous times in Kings County, we support the continuation of rail service on those smaller stations.

I will as well.

We do not have any plans to stop Amtrak service--it is not ours to stop--between Corcoran, Wasco, and--