John Mica: “Amtrak is the key to our future, and competition with the airline industry as well.”

I think it will save money and actually benefit projects that start with non-Federal dollars and can be a great advantage to some of those ports and other waterways that are at a disadvantage because of the distance of the project. So I…

Fifteen years later, we see a system that has not complied with the laws that we have passed multiple times.

The bipartisan cooperation has been very effective in moving this forward.

Okay. So you're about 5 percent. So the smoke--maybe this site that I cited that you can go on and see if Metro's on fire can be taken down pretty soon.