Trent Lott: “It might have been easier to get what you are looking for than what we experienced in the Whitewater. I do not know.”

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.

We are going to start doing things a little differently. We are going to go back and do some of the things that worked.

You've got to do that every now and then. Even though you might get your little flak from some of the people within your conference. It's called leadership.

The amendment would modify the bill's competition pilot program to allow an unlimited number of existing Amtrak routes to be open to competition from freight rails that seek to operate passenger trains in exchange for Amtrak's current…