My understanding is that this project would allow for eventual doubling of passenger trains into Manhattan.

Loss of rail service would cost the economy $100 million a day.

I have to tell you your remarks about the high and growing ridership in the Northeast Corridor is certainly substantiated by my own experience.

When you think about it it is so critically important because a school may be really happy to get rid of a rapist.

Data collection is key. We think without the data, it is hard to make real reform.

I find it unfortunate and embarrassing, as a law enforcement official, that there is not any Federal legislation that requires that cities... are not reporting those types of shootings and deaths to a Federal authority.

We should use our resources to more adequately address public safety and invest in alternatives to incarceration where appropriate.

The victim should be in charge of the information, should be in charge of what happens with a prosecution if that is the choice or an on-campus adjudication.

With regard to the revised profiling guidelines issued yesterday by the Department of Justice, I am deeply disappointed that they did not close significant loopholes.

We need to take more accountability.

I hope that you will indicate your support for this legislation.

the suggestion certainly is one that has attracted a lot of support and understandably and rightly so

the controversy about the University of Virginia probably seems like a distraction but it is no excuse for continuing to support this cause of improving the services and the process available to victims and survivors.

Profiling is an ineffective law enforcement practice. It is detrimental to public safety and is antithetical to the constitutional right to equal protection under law.

There is absolutely no sense of transparency. There is a loss of trust and commitment not just from police, but from the entire criminal justice community.

Unfortunately, that is not only a possible outcome, it may well be a probable outcome.

Governor Nathan Deal... has cut spending on prisons, reduced penalties for nonviolent offenses.

These issues are not Black or White. They are about justice.

the lack of indictment in the Garner case has certainly shocked and appalled countless people

FERPA may have a chilling effect in practice, but the law has a specific exception for this purpose.

Part of what we are experiencing across this country right now is a failure by many Americans... feel a total disconnect from the criminal justice system.

I think that is a very apt and articulate description of the way the process can work, ideally, if the survivor chooses to go to the criminal justice system, but not all survivors may have the decisiveness that this woman evidently did.

There are more African Americans now in prison under criminal supervision, prison, jail, probation, parole than all the slaves in 1850.

I am also proud to be an original cosponsor of the End Racial Profiling Act which I think is clearly and sorely needed.

We must put in place commonsense reforms that prohibit discriminatory profiling, demilitarize local law enforcement, redefine the standards for use of force by police, and establish accountability.