Senate Proceeding on Oct 24th, 2007 :: 5:50:39 to 5:53:30
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Speech By: Frank Lautenberg

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Frank Lautenberg: we ought to be able to discuss it. we shouldn't have any obstructions. to bring the issue to the floor of the senate, let's get on here in this public forum and have a discussion and see where, if there

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Trent Lott: is anything that, problems that can't be dealt with, that maybe we go to some other kind of travel. i don't know what kind. but we at least ought to take the one that's nearest to us and the best

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Speech By: Trent Lott

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Trent Lott: option. and with that, mr. president, i note the absence of a quorum. mr. lo tt: mr. president, if the senator would yield, i was doing some work to see exactly when we might be able to get this up. there

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Trent Lott: are a couple other points that i would like to make. one of them is, you know, we've got a catch-22 here. our members want to make sure they have a chance to offer amendments, additional reforms

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Trent Lott: and substitutes. we want to do that. at the same time our leadership on both sides of the aisle got to pay attention to when and how we get it to conclusion. i think it would be incumbent on the leadership

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Trent Lott: on the committee to work with members to get amendments, but also not to let this just become a plain punching bag and have members coming in here and throwing everything but the kitchen sink. i believe

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Trent Lott: we can move this through in a reasonable time. i think we should -- my attitude is when senators have amendments, come over here, offer them. we'll debate them on a limited period of time. we'll

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Trent Lott: have a vote. we'll not shove it off until 9:00 tomorrow night or 10:00 tomorrow night. i think there's, you know, hesitation a little bit on both sides of the aisle. they've got to work through all

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Trent Lott: that. i understand that. but, we've done this before. we did this bill, i don't know, two years ago. we got 90-something votes. so we can do that. mr. president, one other observation. as i've worked

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Trent Lott: on this, another part of the equation of having good national rail passenger system is encouraging our states and regional concerns to be able, for states to be able to do more on their own and build

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Trent Lott: lines like we've got from san francisco and l.a. and in the chicago area. there's incentives in this bill for states to do more. at the same time without telling states, poor states you've got to

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Trent Lott: do more, way more than they're capable of doing. but also just a couple weeks ago i thought about this bill. i was at big d's barbecue in pocahontas, mississippi. pocahontas. a city in new orleans, a

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Trent Lott: sleeper amtrak train came weuzing by bd's teepee, heading to new orleans. it only had about six or eight cars, relatively short. the important thing was they were going lickety-split. if we want

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Trent Lott: to get the trains where they want to go we need to recognize they have the problem freight trains have. if they are going to be able to get off on the side tracks and let that amtrak through, we need

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more lines all across america, union pacific, northern santa fe, they need to build more lines all the way across this country. we need more lines all over this country. we need to encourage the