Jeff Denham actually said...

You can only put so much lipstick on a black hole financial operation, and you still have great losses to the taxpayer.

I am very encouraged that both the Administration and Amtrak believe that there needs to be reform and improvement as to how Amtrak operates...

I intend to move forward with trying to open all passenger rail service in the United States currently operated by Amtrak to private competi...

So, Mr. Chairman, we have an opportunity here to help Amtrak build on this considerable success.