Patty Murray actually said...

"The budget is not going to get any better, and we need to be able to show exactly what we are doing and why."

"I know families in my home State of Washington deeply value our Amtrak service, the Cascade Line, which just set record ridership for the second year in a row."

"we do need to know from you what programs you will cut in order to deal with that cost increase"

"Those are issues we are dealing with in every program here, and we are trying to be sober about what we can realistically do."