Dan Lipinski: “We need to get this done. We need to be serious about it.”

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

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

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.