Peter DeFazio

I am thankful, however, that we now have a common-sense national strategy unveiled by the Biden administration.

The chaotic, contradictory, and lackluster federal response inarguably made things much worse than they needed to be.

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I also want to thank Chairman DeFazio and Chairman Lipinski for working with Congressman Allred, Congresswoman Fletcher and myself.

I want to thank the members and staff of the Surface Transportation Board who are with us today, for the Board's approval of Texas Central's petition.

The Texas Central High-Speed Rail project will connect Dallas and Houston--two of the top five largest metropolitan regions in the nation.

I am pleased that the STB has applied this analysis to find that it has jurisdiction over projects such as a Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas rail connection.

This is obviously a challenging time for Amtrak. Intercity and commuter rail has been decimated by the pandemic.

Passenger rail is an important piece of the climate change puzzle.

To say that we shouldn't be subsidizing commuter rail or we shouldn't be subsidizing Amtrak is just saying you don't want to run trains, because everywhere else in the world they are subsidized.

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is a critical part of this future.

If they could get it near 2 hours, 2 hours and 15 minutes regularly, there are hundreds and hundreds of more passengers who would take that train every day.

Passenger rail is an important part of the climate change puzzle. It is extremely efficient, fuel efficient, much more so than individual passenger vehicles.

Thanks, Chairman Lipinski, Ranking Member Crawford, for today's hearing on the STB's role in ensuring a robust passenger rail system.

We should significantly increase the amount of public investment in rail infrastructure.

I'm not just a big supporter of passenger rail, I'm a frequent passenger both on Metra commuter rail at home and on Amtrak.

I am optimistic that in a Biden Administration and under the leadership of Chairman DeFazio this bill will get done.

I am not just a big supporter of passenger rail. I am a frequent passenger on both Metra commuter rail at home and on Amtrak.

I remain very hopeful that we will complete a pipeline safety reauthorization bill and have that signed into law.

I am a strong proponent of passenger rail.

I am very proud of the work that this subcommittee has done, along with Chairman DeFazio.

Amtrak intends to furlough at least 2,000 employees on October 1st, 2020.

I believe we will pay a political price if the trust fund runs out in October of 2020.

I am proud of the bipartisan work that was done on WRDA 2020.