Dan Lipinski: “This bill grants a limited exemption to the Federal pay scale to ensure that NIST will have access to the right people.”

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

Amtrak needs the support and the help from Congress.

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

I hope you take very seriously the credibility that you will lose by engaging in these furloughs.