edward wytkind, the issue of climate change.mass transportation being a very important answer to that. i think i saw a figure yesterday out at northeastern university, the u.s. and's $1.4 billion on trains them in china's been something like $124 billion on trains. we have made a lot of the 106 mile-per-hour trains that the train was going at 106 miles per hour, and that is very serious for northeast corridor train making a turn, but we were just broadcasting from japan, the bullet train goes hundreds of miles an hour. what about all of this and this issue of -- you represent millions of workers -- how you see it turning from a political issue to a popular issue since clearly, most people do support this kind of investment? >> well, thank you. the problem is, elections have consequences. so when you continue to elect people that don't understand the importance of these kinds of issues, you get the results that you get. david mentioned some polling. just on amtrak, the vast majority of americans in all parties support more money