Donald Payne Jr.: “An environment in which your chief technical pilot talks about Jedi mind tricks to convince regulators to accept a lower…”

I introduced the One-Seat-Ride Act, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of a one-seat-ride trip versus a transfer trip option during peak hours on New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line.

This is a crucial hearing because many of my constituents and all New Jerseyans understand that Amtrak service is critical to our economy and to our livelihood.

I know one of the reasons they are still missing, because nobody took the time to make sure they took an accounting of where these children were.

And we have heard a lot about Amtrak not turning a profit today.