Frank Lautenberg: “I must say how satisfying it is that the Senate has done what America has asked us to do. I can't tell you how involved…”

“I must say how satisfying it is that the Senate has done what America has asked us to do. I can't tell you how involved personally I have been in this for many years. Since my relatively early days in the Senate, going back decades, I have been interested in what we could do to make Amtrak an integral part of the transportation system, to make Amtrak easier and more reliable for the American people. They asked us to do this, to give them relief. ... Today, the Senate has said to American travelers: You will have another choice, and the choice is passenger rail. I am pleased to note the wide margin by which the Passenger Rail Investment Improvement Act of 2007 has been approved in the Senate. The bill is going to speed passenger rail service in the United States into the 21st century.”