The industry continues to face a number of challenges.
Congress gave the DOT the authority to protect our air carriers and the traveling public from what is unilateral taxation, in effect.
I am particularly interested in the safety issues involved in transporting crude oil from the Bakken region.
And, you know, one way we could get fewer trains in North Dakota is to horizontally drill from South Dakota.
I hope that our committee will consider this bill in the coming months.
there are a number of us on the Committee who are co-sponsoring legislation that would extend that by a reasonable amount of time.
there's a lot of pressure on the railroads, obviously, to comply with and to meet the 2015 deadline.
The railroads have run into a lot of obstacles and their efforts to meet this 2015 PTC deadline.
I worry that the current statutory deadline of December 2015 is unrealistic for most passenger and freight railroads.
The railroads are so important in our part of the country.
we have worked together on a number of issues: digital goods, digital trade; most recently, a letter that we spearheaded, signed by 33 Senat...
I noticed again that the budget this year did have the 28-percent limitation on itemized deductions that many of us think is going to negati...
I also want to welcome our new chairman and really look forward to working with him.
I never would have dreamed that when I sent them out the door to go to school, or to the mall, or to a store that they were in jeopardy of b...
We need all the tools we can possibly get to stop them and to prosecute them to the highest extent possible.
While I am not a member of this committee I am certainly passionate about the issue.
We need to work to make sure the awareness is out there.
I have been passionate about the issue involved in human trafficking.
