Rae Oliver Davis: “I certainly want to thank him, and his counterpart, Zoe Lofgren, the gentlelady from California.”

I appreciate your optimism, but forgive me for being somewhat of a pessimist because I have had this same conversation for years now.

I would like to start by noting that we should be having today's Subcommittee hearing in President Biden's home State of Delaware, maybe Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home State of California, or even Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's home…

So, when you say 'relatively quickly,' has Amtrak or anyone at your agency done any environmental reviews for some of these proposed routes?

These systems have worked. At the end of the day, the outcomes were exactly as they should have been. It’s why people can and should have faith in our election system.