We have congressional staff and I have investigative staff. We corroborate and we try not to interfere or duplicate.
I think the future in America is going to be more rail, not less rail.
I think this approach is short-sighted and wrong-headed.
If we are subsidizing tickets by $375, I mean, really. How do we get to a point to where the American taxpayer is not taken to the cleaners ...
more than $.40 of every dollar that is spent out of the General Fund in the most recent past has been borrowed money.
Amtrak subsidies, whether it is for capital or operation are not manna from heaven, they are actually dollars out of the Federal treasury.
Amtrak is a Government-subsidized, taxpayer-subsidized operation. Megabus, on the other hand, is a private sector operation that actually ma...
Let's have an honest debate about the future of rail transportation, passenger rail transportation, in America.
I have been trying to put a commuter rail line in since December of 1992 in central Florida...
if you want to come out and try to keep the status quo and keep things going as they are, I think you are undoing yourself...
the average subsidy at that time was $46.33. Again, off the chart in the amount of subsidization by the taxpayers.
the taxpayers in those States are paying towards Amtrak subsidization of these money-losing activities, and getting no service.
I think we have to go further, and I think we have to, again, make sure if we are going to use taxpayer dollars--which we probably always wi...
The worst offender, by far, is Sunset Limited. That is Los Angeles to New Orleans. Every ticket on that route is--was subsidized in 2011, $3...
the average subsidy per ticket is about $51. It's actually $50.97.
If you don't get smart about this, the train is going to stop, regardless of who owns the gavel.
I have grown increasingly concerned over the last several months about the future of the U.S.-Israel security relationship.
Those tough sanctions that we passed don't become law because the House passes them and the Senate passes them.
