One of the things that I have been working on--and actually, I am very proud of this, coming at the end of this congress...
We have congressional staff and I have investigative staff. We corroborate and we try not to interfere or duplicate.
I think we can improve our operations and our losses.
We bring in the inspector general. We task him at looking at where there is waste and inefficiency in this agency.
more than $.40 of every dollar that is spent out of the General Fund in the most recent past has been borrowed money.
Amtrak is the key to our future, and competition with the airline industry as well.
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 w...
I am a strong supporter, as you know, of passenger rail. I think we should be having four times as much service and twic...
I certainly look forward to continuing--I hope one day I can go from Memphis to Nashville or Memphis to Little Rock.
I came to Washington on a message from the American people. They want their tax dollars spent wisely.
If you don't get smart about this, the train is going to stop, regardless of who owns the gavel.
the average subsidy per ticket is about $51. It's actually $50.97.
The worst offender, by far, is Sunset Limited. That is Los Angeles to New Orleans. Every ticket on that route is--was su...
the taxpayers in those States are paying towards Amtrak subsidization of these money-losing activities, and getting no s...
the average subsidy at that time was $46.33. Again, off the chart in the amount of subsidization by the taxpayers.
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 yourse...
I have been trying to put a commuter rail line in since December of 1992 in central Florida...
Let's have an honest debate about the future of rail transportation, passenger rail transportation, in America.
