Trent Lott: “U.S. shipping companies can compete and succeed in the world's international trade marketplace when competition is fair.”

We do not filibuster judges. And if we were to do that, we would change the culture of this place.

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…

Quit campaigning, quit having press conferences, sit down at a round table and negotiate a deal.

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