Jean Schmidt: “Chavez has violated this. Chavez's laws last year to restrict the legislature and efforts to control the judicial system…”

With Russia becoming more antagonistic and exerting more influence on its neighbors in Central Asia and China, aggressively expanding its economic footprint in the region, it is absolutely necessary that we, too, become more engaged in the…

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.

You can't continue to monetize our debt and not see the fiscal cliff before us.