Peter DeFazio

This amendment recognizes that Amtrak is not a for-profit corporation.

Efforts to cut jobs or outsource existing Amtrak functions to low-wage, antiunion contractors will not be tolerated by our unions.

Rail is so much more efficient than aviation or individual automobiles for passengers.

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.

If either of those tunnels fail, it is $17 billion a year to the American economy.

I particularly want to welcome State Representative Nancy Nathanson from the Eugene area, one of my constituents.

The need for an efficient, reliable, and modern mode of transportation between American cities has never been more urgent.

The single biggest threat to Amtrak's long-term viability is host railroad delays.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Amtrak should be one of our Nation's great success stories, but it remains one of our Nation's most difficult challenges.

We have got to look really carefully and closely at what we are doing with and for Amtrak.

I would like to know... why we need this mandatory arbitration policy for covering every and any kind of complaint customers could have?

People are tired of spending an hour and a half to drive 20 miles to get home from work or spending an hour (plus) to get past airport security.

Doing away with the cross-country system would be catastrophic for the communities that rely on Amtrak service, and would eliminate thousands of good jobs.

There is no rail system in the world that makes money.

If I could--I don't want to prolong this too much----

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.

That has been my question since way back when.

Who bears the principal responsibility at Boeing for the cascading events that resulted in the crash of Lion Air flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines flight 302?

I think it is pretty clear to me, to the families of the victims, and the American public that you should resign and do it immediately.

I think that assumption should have rung some alarm bells.

I commit that we will be hearing from FAA.

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 saved the lives of those on board.

346 people--sons, daughters, fathers, and mothers--died on two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the span of 5 months.