Amtrak subsidies, whether it is for capital or operation are not manna from heaven, they are actually dollars out of the Federal treasury.

more than $.40 of every dollar that is spent out of the General Fund in the most recent past has been borrowed money.

Amtrak is the key to our future, and competition with the airline industry as well.

I think the future in America is going to be more rail, not less rail.

I certainly look forward to continuing--I hope one day I can go from Memphis to Nashville or Memphis to Little Rock.

The worst offender, by far, is Sunset Limited. That is Los Angeles to New Orleans. Every ticket on that route is--was subsidized in 2011, $375.

the taxpayers in those States are paying towards Amtrak subsidization of these money-losing activities, and getting no service.

the average subsidy at that time was $46.33. Again, off the chart in the amount of subsidization by the taxpayers.

One of the things that I have been working on--and actually, I am very proud of this, coming at the end of this congressional session--is next Tuesday morning at 10:00 they are going to dedicate--or at least a formal opening--of Union…

I think we have to go further, and I think we have to, again, make sure if we are going to use taxpayer dollars--which we probably always will have a portion of taxpayer dollars--we got to make sure we are good stewards of the taxpayers'…

If we are subsidizing tickets by $375, I mean, really. How do we get to a point to where the American taxpayer is not taken to the cleaners here.