Political Quotes

“sometimes we are caught unawares without any warning. Last month there was a commuter strike in San Francisco where over 270,000 commuters found themselves without a way to work and a way home, when the 60-day cooling-off period expired on a labor dispute out there and the San Francisco Bay area's commuter railroads were shut down. About the same time here in Washington, afternoon commuters who were going home on VRE suddenly found that their trains were not leaving Union Station, and tens of thousands of them were stranded when dispatchers at Norfolk Southern called a wildcat strike. Now, these were regional strikes, they were unforeseen but they caused a great deal of disruption. What may be happening to our Nation that I think most of the Members of this body are unaware of is another strike on the magnitude of the UPS strike. The gentleman from New York mentioned 'Groundhog Day,' where suddenly Bill Murray woke up and it was the same day all over again. We could very well be facing that again later this month. The date: October 22. Amtrak is faced on that day with a possible national shutdown because of an impasse between the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way employees and themselves over wages and work rules.”