Grace Napolitano actually said...

"Well, this certainly is a problem. And I agree with my colleagues' comments that the railroads are making profits for Wall Street, and the communities are suffering."

"we need to be sure that we back the employees because they--and as far as the whistleblowers are concerned, maybe we should make more availability to them to tell us what is going wrong so we can take..."

"I have strong concerns with these costs being passed onto taxpayers, which also has the effect of delaying, canceling, or scaling back these important projects."

"It seems to me that the railroad is not willing to do voluntarily what is necessary or right."