Donald Payne Jr.: “We all have a duty to speak up, regardless as to who the perpetrator is.”

There are millions of people every day that depend on railroads and trains and Amtrak and local train systems to get back and forth to work.

Thanks in large part to this Committee's past efforts, Congress passed the STB Reauthorization Act of 2015.

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

That is why 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…