How long has that regulation been in the pipeline, as you----
The big companies that you regulate will thumb their nose at your agencies.
I think one of the problems we can agree--and maybe this is an issue that pertains to all your agencies--is the resource...
In other words, you will issue a regulation that might have saved his life.
Well, if I were in your shoes, I would be advocating for more authority.
When the penalties aren't sufficient, there's no incentive to obey them.
It carries about 90,000 vehicles a day, and it will have a huge impact in creating congestion, from Florida to Maine.
the $5,000 penalty, under those circumstances of neglect, the severity of the consequences, the seriousness of the safet...
I continue to believe that there has to be attention to the penalty provisions to make sure that they are commensurate w...
these relatively minuscule penalties... plainly, I think, provide an inadequate deterrent to violation-of-safety standar...
standards need to be sufficiently high, they need to be enforced rigorously, and that penalties have to provide a deterr...
We are here at a moment of tremendous promise and peril for our Nation's transportation system.
a lot of riders have lost trust and confidence, not only in the railroad, but also in the enforcement authority of the F...
the experience of Metro-North... provides a national poster railroad in culminating years of neglect and systematic and ...
I truly believe that the GROW AMERICA Act is a logical and important step forward in improving hazardous materials trans...
the funding for that system expires at the end of September, and there's a need to reauthorize the Nation's surface tran...
If they're on the books and they're not enforced, they're dead letter.
And, certainly, that would be available to us, again, if a situation arose that would not put soldiers or airmen or anyo...
