Jay Rockefeller

Everything you are saying... is really affirming an answer to a question that I gave to you.

There has to be a follow-up on all of this was my point.

What would be a way that you might-- not hypothetically, but just thinking back in your experience when you say enhanced competition or I would say pro-competitive evidence--and we have agreed it is sort of the same. What would be an…

I think it was you--or somebody--said 'I do not see why any industry should be treated differently.'

Is that an example of the kind of thing that could be looked at in terms of prices that are not quoted on clearly and predictably to be used rail service lines?

Does that not fit under the definition of enhanced competition?

We have one industry which has exemption under antitrust. You do not.

Trackage rights gets interestingly close to bottleneck, does it not?

It is. Suppose you find it becomes deficient.

I do not know if that is true, but I would hope that that would not be true.

Let me put it negatively. If in the questioning that you did in a proposed, hypothetical future merger...

And they do not have the protection, of course, that railroads do.

Let me just simplify it to North America. Why is it that you should be able to operate under exemptions and an antitrust situation would be illegal in any other industry?

In the context of the merger, yes. I would not be wrong, right, in saying that?

It is because you have behind that the threat of the choice.

The FAA would step in. The President would declare a state of--it would be totally untenable.

Now, obviously within the airline industry, the public would rebel.

You can operate under rules that would be illegal for any other industry in this country to do.

But I do not think we should be subject to two regulatory regimes, to two masters. One master is enough.

Well, let me just say two things.

I am happy today to join with my colleagues Senator Dorgan and Senator Burns, in introducing the Rail Competition Act of 2001. Very simply, the purpose of this legislation is to encourage a bare minimum of competitive practices among…

I am today introducing this legislation which attempts to ensure there will be a sufficient number of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims so as to decide the appeals of our Nation's veterans for disability claims. In…

I am tremendously pleased to introduce today legislation that would allow veterans to use their Montgomery GI bill educational benefits to pay for short-term, high technology courses that lead to lucrative careers. The GI bill allowed a…

we all know the cost of gasoline has been increasing very dramatically and the people of my State, a very rural State, have to travel very long distances. There is little public transportation in rural counties, and as a result they have…

I support a meaningful tax cut that provides all Americans with financial relief as quickly as possible, but I can not in good conscience support the bill before us today. The decision the Senate is faced with is not whether we should have…