Elaine Chao: “The comparison is not analogous.”

If we did not have the Merchant Marine assets to assist the great halls on these campaigns, the military naval campaigns, our country would not have been able to supply our troops.

There was never any Federal commitment. It was a verbal commitment, a verbal sentence given at a rally, a political rally no less.

Rail safety is number one. There is no question about that.

No political pressure is going to take one of those projects, put it at the head of the line, ahead of all other projects, which is what is happening in this particular case.