Jean Schmidt: “Democracy is always something that is a continuing event. We are still working on our democracy, here in the United…”

This is inexcusable. We are here to help you make that happen.

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.

We have to pick up the pennies off the floor. We can't overlook them anymore.