I do think in instances like that I was accountable to my constituents, and I represented a very conservative district in Georgia, to explain to them that they were going to get on the train and go to Chicago or to New York or to Washington, D.C., why in the world they were not subsidizing their fare like they were subsidizing other fares.
Senator Isakson explains his voting decisions on Amtrak funding based on accountability to constituents.
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