Dan Lipinski: “I strongly urge the bill's passage, and I yield back the balance of my time.”

I believe that Congress needs to act quickly to prevent furloughs and avoid long-distance service cuts.

Ultimately, the furloughs and long-distance service cuts are misguided, and weaken our national passenger rail service.

I don't think that your decision to furlough these 2,000 employees is going to save the day.

One group of major industry stakeholders never celebrated the Staggers Act: railroad workers.