Dan Lipinski: “I wanted to get back to this O'Hare situation... to protect the American people from things like this.”

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

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

I have always been a strong advocate for Amtrak, because it provides an important public service: national passenger rail service.

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