Dan Lipinski: “As the last Ph.D. scientist in Congress, I am afraid I've served a sort of a lightning rod for many of these warnings…”

Amtrak must heed and not ignore Congress' desire that it work well with others.

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 really have some deep misgivings about my own decision to pull that amendment.