John Mica: “We should make Amtrak a success story. But we have got a ways to go.”

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

We have pilots that are flying planes. We don't know who they are.

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

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…