Donald Payne Jr.: “We see that we have gotten into this habit of locking children in cages, in fences, and feeling that that will deter…”

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by President Biden in November 2021, provides $22 billion in funding to Amtrak through Fiscal Year 2026.

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.

I could not imagine my children being separated from me and I hope the former President and my colleagues realize that fact.

The few times that I don't use Amtrak to come to work, I drive down, and I have to leave between midnight and 4 o'clock in the morning in order to bypass all that traffic between New Jersey and Washington, DC.