representative chakah fattah is a democrat from pennsylvania whose district includes philadelphia and congressman john mica is a republican from florida who serves on the house transportation & infrastructure committee. welcome to you both. congressmen,iment to ask you both, starting with you, john mica, do you think congress has adequately funded amtrak? >> i think given amtrak's history of poor performance, i think they've given them more than enough money subs diegz last year, for example every ticket onam track, all 30.9 million $42 on average. >> ifill: congressman fatah. >> there's no passenger rail in the world that is not subsidized. that's number one. the president and the transportation experts in our government proposed $2.4 billion for capital and safety improvements that congress yesterday, on the appropriations committee, cut that by $1.3 billion. i asked for us to go back to the frompresident's request. instead of doing that what they did was not honor the increase the president wanted. they cut last year's appropriation by more than $250 million. so i think that it wou