mr. capuano: mr. secretary, i have an issue i want to pick a bone with you on. did you read secretary clinton's regular mail? secretary lew: no. i mean -- mr. capuano: did you see who was writing her? secretary lew: only if she needed me to look at something. mr. capuano: only after the fact. did you tuck her in at night? secretary lew: i certainly did not. mr. capuano: did you make sure she brushed her teeth? secretary lew: if -- mr. capuano: i think if we should go to the extreme absurdity. i think i made the point. secretary lew: you made your point. mr. capuano: have 47 members of congress, either branch, because i wouldn't want to knock one branch over the other, have they ever written to the f.s.b. to say don't talk to you? secretary lew: i'm not aware of it but -- mr. capuano: have 47 members of congress written to the international insurance advisors and say not talk to the secretary of the treasury? secretary lew: i am not aware of it. mr. capuano: have they ever written to iciss and say that i can't believe the secretary of treasury is doing something

mr. capuano: the gentlelady from washington, d.c. three minutes. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. norton: thank you, mr. speaker. the amtrak re-authorization before us today speaks volumes for the chairman and the ranking member of our committee. the first bill on the floor since 2008. it's a bipartisan bill. but it also speaks volumes that amtrak has performed so well without additional revenue. this bill leaves amtrak at about level funding, just a tiny bit more. when we call amtrak america's railroad, that is not a metaphor, mr. speaker. all of its stock soned by the department of transportation. the reason for that is that the private sector in the 1970's found running a railroad to be a money losing proposition. and asked the federal government to take over amtrak. amtrak, of course, is a fiction. it is constructed -- structured as a private company, but like every railroad in the world it is either subsidized by the government or the public cannot afford to ride. the bill has almost no funding, yet it has scored without new funding