Thanks to Senator Lautenberg's leadership, Amtrak was reauthorized with $1.5 billion over a 5-year period for 11 high-sp...
I hope that the Senator from Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchison, will be a partner in this as we go forward.
While today's hearing is about progress, in many ways it's more about lack of progress over the last several decades.
We have a $2.2-trillion infrastructure deficit in this country.
It's about leveling the playing field. And it's about how when we do that, America is stronger in the global marketplace...
I'm open. Whoever serves the customers the best.
A recent study by the Consumer Federation of America found that rail shipping rates for captive shippers are $3 billion ...
America is stronger in the global marketplace, and that means jobs and economic security are more important than ever.
this was a bipartisan bill that we passed.
We could save families money, we could lessen our dependence on that foreign oil, we'd create a lot of jobs in the Unite...
I commend the Department and the Federal Railroad Administration for its good work on this issue.
for the first time in 30 years, this committee reported out a bill, in a bipartisan manner, that would update our rail r...
It's about progress. It's about what's required to modernize our transportation system so our businesses and workers can...
A comprehensive long-term plan for our rail system is long overdue.
they want to stretch this whole process out through the elections, hoping that they will gain advantage.
John Thune feels exactly the same way, as Byron Dorgan does and I do.
This is actually the first time, I think, in committee's history, that we have had precisely this kind of, writ large, o...
The very size, location, and constant movement at ports makes them vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack.
