If America is not to fall behind, if we are going to be competitive, we are going to have to have high-speed rail.
High-speed rail... has value for America, and we are all part of Team America.
What I would like to do is work with you as much as I could to make sure that Amtrak achieves the level of service that ...
I am extremely pleased to see that this budget continues on the President's public commitment to invest in world-class e...
you do not want to create the incentives to have more of that stuff happen outside the United States.
I think the Bowles-Simpson Commission laid out the kind of strong, broad vision that we need to take on to tackle not ju...
I am hopeful that this budget--that this conversation at this Committee and elsewhere will serve as a catalytic event.
Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for your leadership on these very important issues.
Yes. And I -- you know, Joe Biden has publicly said that the drawdown in July 2011 could consist of as few as 2,000 sold...
I hope to be Senator Kaufman's successor in interest both in subject matter interest and interest in terms of representi...
this really is, at the end, about values, integrity, and allowing our men and women in the Armed Forces to serve openly ...
All right. Thank you. Talk to us a little bit about productivity gains and some gains that you have realized by virtue o...
I want to thank Senator Carper for taking the lead by introducing S. 3831.
We must be careful of using Band-aid fixes as we search for lifelong changes that will enhance our postal assets.
I believe that if these projections do bear out, the Postal Service will be out of cash and out of borrowing authority.
You could not pick a better State to emulate. It is actually a State that works.
we have to lead by example.
to the extent that we can better identify services that logically could be provided at post offices in order to add to t...
