Trent Lott: “I think we can make progress on military construction. It has broad support because of what is in the base bill and also…”

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

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…

First of all, there's going to be an election and the numbers will be different come this fall. And you're going to need leadership from the President and from the leaders in the Congress.

I think if they would go back to the old way of getting things done, carefully and systematically, would really help them.