Donald Payne Jr.: “Congress should strengthen and better define the existing federal common carrier obligation the railroads have to serve…”

I celebrate the return of this service--and note that it took three years to restore.

This mode of transportation has guaranteed funding for multiple years. The value of this certainty is not to be understated.

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.

Thank you. I appreciate both of you gentlemen staying here and--well, Chairman, as I look at both sides of the aisle, it looks like it is just you and me.