Peter DeFazio actually said...

"We spend hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize every form of public transportation--highways, aviation, transit--yet Amtrak gets the short end of the stick."

"I said I don't understand how this is going to work when I voted against this process."

"It doesn't seem like anything was done to relieve the undue pressure in this culture where people were afraid for their jobs."

"We may never know what key steps could have been taken that would have altered the fate of those flights, but we do know that a variety of decisions could have made those planes safer and perhaps save..."