Trent Lott: “I understand we can't use these dollars until the plans are available to use them. Anyway, we are still waiting on plans…”

When you're dealing with 100 United States senators, let alone 435 House members, you're not going to get it all the way you want it. The president's going to have to give some, the president is going to have to show leadership.

I too am concerned about some of the costs we have had at Amtrak. In fact, the last time we passed Amtrak reform, I included a provision in that legislation to allow food to be contracted out. Up until that point, it could not even be…

Would you at the very least sit down with him and listen to him?

It's called leadership, Anderson.