Trent Lott: “I think it is high time we have some debate around here and some thought about how we deal with these unilateral…”

I wish to make some opening comments about what happened here and make a plea to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, but particularly my own side of the aisle, that we not object to going to consideration of Amtrak legislation. I…

I do think that the congestion problem is going to continue to grow until we begin to make tougher decisions.

I also think this is a classic chicken-and-egg deal. We tell Amtrak we want them to do better, but yet we don't offer any reforms, challenges, responsibilities to do better. We throw rocks and say: Why aren't you providing better service…

There are no problems.