Trent Lott: “We need to do it because he has been in my office several times explaining it. I would like to get it done because I…”

But, unfortunately, the wheels have come off in the Finance Committee, in the House, in trying to find a way to come together in a bipartisan, nonpartisan way.

First of all, there's going to be an election and the numbers will be different come this fall. And you're going to need leadership from the President and from the leaders in the Congress.

I again say to Senator Lautenberg, I have enjoyed working with him on transportation issues--from aviation to highways to highway safety and certainly the rail area and most particularly with regard to Amtrak and the national rail…

However, like so many of the things that we complain about in the Congress, we looked around, and we found the enemy, and it is us.