05/25/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"One of the biggest problems we have is, we haven't invested sufficiently in the infrastructure of rail overall."
"the World Bank increased lending from $13.5 billion in 2008 to a record $33 billion in 2009."
"We've got to think about this holistically, which we really haven't done."
"I happen to believe that high-speed rail, particularly, but passenger rail, as a whole, and the improvement of our rail structure, including freight, is absolutely critical to our ability to transform..."