Daniel Donovan: “I think Captain Kelenske may have said it best when he stated in his written testimony that we must 'recognize past…”

Surface transportation systems serve over 10 billion riders annually. Like me--I am one of those 10 billion riders--these people depend on the reliability and safety of this critical infrastructure, and so does our economy.

I get very concerned from time to time in reference to the cuts that are made to the grants and the funding for homeland preparedness when we always see the military budget escalated.

This attempted terrorist attack is a stark reminder of how vulnerable our surface transportation systems are to terrorist attacks.

We look toward the Federal Government to protect our Nation, to protect our interests overseas.