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You are working through the deadlines, you are working with the industry and making sure that we are doing everything we can to expedite this along?

In West Virginia, it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat; you just have to get something done.

Have you put a working group together, working with the railroad executives and engineers and the people on the front line and all the people that are on the rails, trying to get input from them to try to better this or do the things that…

I was amazed to find out that we are still using technology that is 50, 80, 100 years old.

But if we are not moving toward a new technology, and our whole country depends on it, why would we not be using some of the easiest, latest, greatest advanced technologies for train traffic?

I require your agency, NHTSA, and others, NTSB, to take a hard look at the adequacy of Amtrak's family assistance plans

I did not get the feeling they are moving in that direction.

Are you getting any pushback on that whatsoever? Are the states saying we still don't have the info we need in time enough to make sure that they have the proper equipment and people available in case, God forbid, something would happen?

It is a sad affair. I wish you would come and talk with the folks that these regulations are very deeply affecting.

We have the highest unemployment in our State right now, and it is directly attributable to a lot of things, natural gas, yes. But also to the regulatory environment, everything you see.

We are hurting here. And when this regulation goes into effect, it is going to have an even more devastating effect on us directly.

When they cause a problem, the mines are fined immediately, and they have to come up with the money.

If a government causes a problem, should the government clean it up on their dime, or should they pass that on to the taxpayers of the country?

But if we subsidized our alternative fuel so dramatically, why aren't we doing that with spent fuel rods instead of burying it?

Isn't that better than burying our material and telling our grandchildren its your problem to deal with later on?

I want to know, you wouldn't be comfortable with it in America, so why should we be comfortable with it in Iran?

I know, Senator Cantwell, you and Senator Murkowski and I are going to continue to work closely together on this very topic.

I want to commend Lisa Murkowski, the Senator from Alaska and Chairman of the Committee, for advancing a reasonable solution on these difficult issues.