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themselves that make it very difficult to be safe there? your thoughts. put it together. well, chris, there are three things that comprise good, sound infrastructure. one is personnel training, making sure that an engineer is abiding by the rules, is operating the train safely. the second is maintenance. making sure that when we re on a train or a plane, on a highway, those components are maintained. and the third is modernization, making sure that we re not driving and taking trains on a 20th century infrastructure. we re 0 for 3 on those things. now we tried to correct that today in the appropriations committee. the fact is that the amtrak budget that we voted on today is $1.3 billion below the president s request and $250 million less than last year. so we offered a simple amendment today in the appropriations committee. and that was to restore those funds. and what we got was a party line vote. they defeated that amendment just within 24 hours after this accident. and my final po
and my final point is this. republicans said that it s just that we couldn t afford to add those funds back, that we couldn t afford to subsidize train safety. well, two weeks ago they repealed the entire estate tax at a cost of nearly $700 billion to the treasury without a penny in offset. so instead of subsidizing special interests, we need to subsidize the safety of americans and their infrastructure. let me ask you about that train ride. everybody takes that train from d.c. to new york and loves it. but the problem with the train ride is it s the opposite of a bullet train. it doesn t go straight in a line. it jumps back and forth. it goes around every corner in every big city. it s a jagged line. how do you get around that? the fact is it s a difficult course to run safely. certainly not at speed. chris, i once had a debate with the former head of the metropolitan agency in new york when i was telling him we needed high speed rail. he said you ll never get it done.