Jean Schmidt: “More than 75 percent of the Agriculture Committee's budget goes to nutrition programs, which serve a broad range of…”

I want to make sure that Amtrak is profitable in the future so that when I want to use it, it is there for me to use.

I think it is incumbent on all of us to find ways to use those precious dollars in a very wise and judicious manner.

My concern is understanding China is a long-term thinker, and so it will create a strategy in the region so that it can overtake it at a time when the rest of the world is least prepared to act.

I think what--the purpose of this--these hearings are to get Amtrak to understand that we do not have an unending pot of gold here to help you remain operational.