Trent Lott: “Thank you, Senator Byrd, for your comments and for your inspiration and for talking about the history of this great…”

The amendment would modify the bill's competition pilot program to allow an unlimited number of existing Amtrak routes to be open to competition from freight rails that seek to operate passenger trains in exchange for Amtrak's current…

My recommendation to the Congress and to the president would be, quit campaigning, quit having press conferences. Sit down at a round table and negotiate a deal.

A lot of it is because Republicans when they start talking don't talk about education. You have to talk about it. You have to go there, where they are.

However, like so many of the things that we complain about in the Congress, we looked around, and we found the enemy, and it is us.