Marc Molinaro: “I thank my colleague across the aisle for her leadership. I too wish Representative Payne, for many reasons, would still…”

“I thank my colleague across the aisle for her leadership. I too wish Representative Payne, for many reasons, would still be here to at least celebrate this important next step. There are far too many barriers in the lives of those living with intellectual, physical, and developmental disabilities. They shoulder a 70 percent unemployment rate. Access to transportation and the ability to move around, as every American would hope to, creates such enormous barriers to opportunities. This Think Differently Transportation Act will help to ensure that Amtrak follows the basic expectation that the ADA sets into law, through regular reporting to both Congress and the President on Amtrak's progress, or lack thereof, toward ADA compliance for its trains and stations and all those they serve. This bill represents an important step toward improving Amtrak's service for customers of every ability. Mr. Speaker, I urge support of the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from New York (Mr. Molinaro) that the House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 6248, as amended. The question was taken; and (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the rules were suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed. A motion to reconsider was laid on the table. ____________________”