What justification can CSX or other railroads in the U.S. give for a pricing system that would be illegal in any other industry in this country?

Why should shippers in the United States in a sense be at a disadvantage to shippers in Canada with regard to bottleneck prices?

Let me put it negatively. If in the questioning that you did in a proposed, hypothetical future merger...

Everything you are saying... is really affirming an answer to a question that I gave to you.

Now, obviously within the airline industry, the public would rebel.

I have been a Governor for 8 years and I have been doing this for some time.

Is that an example of the kind of thing that could be looked at in terms of prices that are not quoted on clearly and predictably to be used rail service lines?

Now, is that a way of saying that until we change the law, you are stuck?

There has to be a follow-up on all of this was my point.

And they do not have the protection, of course, that railroads do.

Trackage rights gets interestingly close to bottleneck, does it not?

We have one industry which has exemption under antitrust. You do not.

I do not think I have any more questions.

Some of our most productive 'leap ahead' technologies have often been associated with space.

I hope that our subcommittee will really rally and advocate and work in a bipartisan way to really press ahead

I think we are very much in agreement about the things that need to be done.

I just want to say that I am going to submit some additional questions for the record, but again, I just think this is a very important hearing.

You stated that it is not necessarily DARPA's job to produce completed designs.