Mr. President, as a young man, I lived with my father while he served as U.S. Ambassador to Laos. I came to know it as a heartbreakingly beautiful country, with lovely, kind people, into which our international contest with communism…

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But then yesterday, we were a bit disappointed when we found that DOT decided to change course and make available only the $250 million for PTC implementation.

If PTC is the critical issue and if safety is the most important issue, why did you not go ahead and make as much funding available as you thought could be absorbed?

The state of good repair of a railroad, Mr. Gardner, is that a safety concern for Amtrak operations?

I really think what we need to do is look instead of short funding, continue to work with Amtrak to find ways to be more innovative and find ways to increase and improve efficiency.

You made that limited amount of funding available yesterday. You decided that PTC was important, but not important enough to give more than $250 million to it.

You could have made all of the appropriated funding available for PTC, if you wanted to.

Thank you, Chairman Collins, not only for holding this important hearing, but also for your extraordinary leadership, generosity, and kindness.

Can you give us some examples about how critical this funding is to your operations?

The Administration's fiscal year 2019 budget proposed deep cuts to Amtrak funding and asked States to put more skin in the game.

Mr. Speaker, today National Security Advisor John Bolton eliminated the position of special assistant to the President and cybersecurity adviser. I could not more strongly disagree with that decision. As the co-chair of the Congressional…

We all are pleased that the unemployment rate is 3.9 percent, but behind that number is a labor participation rate that is falling.

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Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 230, nays 185, not voting 13, as follows…