Amtrak must work to attract customers and revenue and operate as a reasonable steward of the taxpayers' dollars.

Amtrak predicts it will lose roughly $1 billion per year, with those losses largely covered by the taxpayers.

I think the American people have a right to know.

Any potential expansion of Amtrak's system must allow for freight railroads to provide input on capacity and track sharing issues.

I find it kind of disturbing in many ways that this is public transportation, billions of dollars going to it.

We believe the bi-partisan efforts to increase funding through the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail grant program is sound policy.

We want to express our support of your efforts to improve the nineteenth-century infrastructure on the Northeast Corridor.

Let's be clear. We are here today because Joe Biden opened his mouth. When Joe Biden took office, he had to do nothing. He had to do nothing to secure our southern border. All he had to do was keep President Trump's policies in place…

The supply chain situation boiled over into a full-blown crisis last year as the Biden administration sat idle and helpless to fix the problem.

We need to go out there and fix the problems.

I think we should provide a lot more funding and support to try to think about how we can support this program.

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to ripple through supply chains and transportation modes, including freight railroads.