This is not like two equally powerful groups facing each other. This is this mammothly powerful group and this very small, fragile group in need.

It's un-American. It's against the free enterprise system. It is the free enterprise system.

We could do this with other conditions as well to try to show on the label how much this would cost.

It is so refreshing to have such strong leadership from this Administration that brings attention to the real importance of passenger rail.

We can't be content to just build out an ordinary system.

the biggest challenge we must overcome first is getting Congress to agree that high-speed rail is a modal choice.

I have been assigned a time at 3:15 p.m. That's kind of for life, for her, should she win, which I think she will.

Thirteen billion--and I know what Senator Thune said, and he's right--in one sense, $13 billion is a lot of money.

We need to increase the use of passenger rail enormously, not just for passengers but for freight.

I believe passenger rail can do so much for our transportation network, our environment, and our energy security.

Transportation affects our climate change, it affects one-third of our greenhouse emissions in this country.

we need to treat the high-speed rail network as a national system, just like the interstate highway.

the biggest challenge is going to be to get a majority of Congress to agree that high-speed passenger rail should be competitive with other modes.

I believe that passenger rail can do so much for us as a country.

S. 1036 is an important bill because it is the first reauthorization proposal that specifically seeks to integrate environment and energy goals into the Nation's transportation policy.

I would like to commend Chairman Rockefeller and Subcommittee Chairman Lautenberg for introducing legislation that seeks to establish a new approach and a new standard for the next surface transportation reauthorization.

We need to focus our resources to move goods more efficiently and reduce congestion and emissions.

When Governor Joe Manchin III began his term, he promised to focus the efforts of the WVDOT on a limited number of major corridors, including Corridor H.