From my perspective, anything I do as a Member of Congress to deal with Amtrak or any passenger facility across the country, none of it is going to get me a single vote.

Oh, don't worry, I do disagree with it, and I have disagreed with it before, and I will continue to disagree with it tomorrow.

If I took your house, and gave it away to one of the airlines, that wouldn't be fair, would it?

Look, Madam Secretary, that is fine. We all know it is the airlines who are going to run it.

If you give away somebody's property, it is still taking their property away.

You do realize that virtually nobody here believes that, but that is OK.

It puzzles me why we are going to have so much faith in the airline industry when, in the last 2 years, they have proven repeatedly that they don't know how to manage large computerized systems.

Your apology is a beginning, and the policies seem reasonable.

There will come a day when Congress won't accept it any more on behalf of the American people.

We are kind of sick of it, as the consuming Americans.

You have forgotten that.