Trent Lott: “I think, if we should start to cherry-pick from this list or any list at this time, it would not be very wise.”

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…

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.

I too am concerned about some of the costs we have had at Amtrak. In fact, the last time we passed Amtrak reform, I included a provision in that legislation to allow food to be contracted out. Up until that point, it could not even be…

I do think that the congestion problem is going to continue to grow until we begin to make tougher decisions.