Would you say that one of the reasons is because of the discipline of a private-sector marketplace?
OK, ``multiple billions.'' Are you talking $10 billion? Are you talking $15 billion?
I am not interested in the way Congress figures it. What does your profit and loss look like?
Wow. So you can't tell me how much you lose in a year?
But the freight rail system is pretty profitable, correct?
So, in other words, the Federal Government pumps money in, you count that as revenue, and then you still lose $500 milli...
One of the reasons we had budget surpluses in the late 1990s is government spending was only a little over 18 percent.
Taxpayers would like it, though.
I am not satisfied with the progress, and I certainly have more questions that have not been answered.
So, total, what does Amtrak lose a year, then, in total?
So wouldn't that be the policy prescription, the first policy prescription is make sure that, rather than have the taxpa...
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One of my concerns... is that when we don't have a clear standard... it can allow for situations that don't provide for ...
I think many of us would disagree with that standard.
What you are doing by growing the economy, investing in infrastructure and research and development, having tax fairness...
I repeat often our President's words from the State of the Union--not this past one, but the one before--that to win the...
In 2030, is Medicare solvent under your plan? Yes or no. The answer is no, is it not?
So if you care about jobs, putting our private sector unions back to work, why, in this budget, if you care about infras...
