Trent Lott: “I congratulate Senator Lugar, the chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, and Senator Roberts, on the bipartisan work…”

I also think this is a classic chicken-and-egg deal. We tell Amtrak we want them to do better, but yet we don't offer any reforms, challenges, responsibilities to do better. We throw rocks and say: Why aren't you providing better service…

Would you at the very least sit down with him and listen to him?

Let me say with regard to the package that was agreed to, the changes, we did work together on that. It was cleared on both sides. I want to thank the leaders for allowing us to move forward on this legislation. It is never easy to go…

I was accused of being a compromiser or a deal-maker. I didn't know those were dirty words.