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America and what congress can do to help not cutting funding like we saw today? >> the first thing i want to reiterate based on what secretary carter said this is a tragedy and it is a painful day to realize that we've lost life on passenger rail in southeastern pennsylvania. thousands of my constituents use that rail liner single day. and in terms of the funding, whether this is a human error or whether it was an aging infrastructure problem, it's clear we need to reinvest in our passenger rail system. we have a backlog of capital improvements that need to be made and i know you have to go sp...

Of life and lost lives. this is simple. >> amtrak ridership soared by about 50% in the last 15 years, obviously, they haven't been able to accommodate this. use on the northeast corridor hit an all time high last year. you know it's just our general reflection, willie getting on one of these train, riding in them, they feel old, completely out of date. >> especially the one that crashed yesterday. the asela feels a little more modern. although it doesn't travel nearly as fast as it should for a high speed train. these regional trains feel old. governor, our concern is first and foremost with t...

Chamber of commerce and the koch brothers, this whole infrastructure is the problem. a legacy needs to address that infrastructure problem. >> we talk about the mind set to compromise. we are back to the clinton years and there were compromises between the impeachment and the rise and all of that. if you look at the first term for president, that's the most accomplished congress and they pass more big things than you have seen with lbj. they were able to get health care and stimulus and all these things. the reality of republican opposition has not changed. the democrats had votes in 2009 and ...

Industry employs millions of people. and the technology josh talks about is more expensive than the infrastructure in place. >> we have a huge cost problem. there's the infrastructure problem. >> especially when you have as you say these politically active and money spending oil companies supporting their interests in washington and politicly telling one to kick it down the road than barring it off the bat. >> there is this investment problem, right? i mean, the fossil fuel companies, that is their -- they need investment constantly to -- that's the fuel that they run on. >> but you're not -- ...

About is more expensive than the infrastructure in place. >> we have a huge cost problem. there's the infrastructure problem. >> especially when you have as you say these politically active and money spending oil companies supporting their interests in washington and politicly telling one to kick it down the road than barring it off the bat. >> there is this investment problem, right? i mean, the fossil fuel companies, that is their -- they need investment constantly to -- that's the fuel that they run on. >> but you're not -- what you don't want to try to do is recreate what happened with the...