Mark Pryor

You can increase CAFE without having a decrease on safety.

I think that is great. So, you are seeing what you would hope to see out there, which is communities coming together and really getting great things done.

We are going to call our meeting to order.

Alcohol-related deaths are still a third of all fatalities.

It seems to me that--I mean, from the layman's perspective that you all are really doing a good job in engineering, even the lighter vehicles.

Thank you. I want to thank all of our witnesses for testifying today.

Response to written questions submitted to Hon. David L. Strickland by: Hon. Mark Pryor.

The bill that we are proposing or shopping around does not have a specific time period.

Well, that's great because we're going to need that type of evaluation as we go through our continuing tough budget years to come.

We are going to leave the record open for 2 weeks.

Abraham Lincoln once said: I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. I think that is where we are today. I think we need…

Legislation introduced by Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR) and John Boozman (R-AR), the Safe Roads Act of 2011, S.754, would require the Secretary to establish a national clearinghouse for records relating to alcohol and controlled substances…

I would invite you to come to the State of Maine to watch these trucks coming through small towns.

Advocates urges passage of S. 695, the Commercial Driver Compliance Improvement Act sponsored by Senator Pryor.

Congress should enact S. 754, legislation sponsored by Senator Pryor, to create a clearinghouse for drug and alcohol test results.

The proposed changes in the hours of service rules, in my view, fail the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's own cost-benefit analysis, and could result in significant productivity loss to the tune of $2 billion annually.

Before we mandate these types of products from Congress, these issues must be addressed.

ATA fully supports improving safe operations through a Federal mandate for electronic logging devices, including S. 695, legislation sponsored by Senators Pryor and Alexander.

It is time for Congress to act.

Economic strain on this delivery system can affect our entire economy, and so this is why it's so important that we get the balance correct in terms of regulations that we pass.

I've introduced a bill that would allow the Secretary of Transportation to have a waiver authority.

I look forward to reviewing the FMCSA and the industry's efforts to improve commercial motor vehicle safety.

Maine desperately wants one above the 80,000-pound limit to travel the Interstate, because it's safer.

And, if the Congress is able to pass this database proposal that I've offered, would that help you in your hiring process, and how so?

So we do have to make difficult choices, and even in things where people are in need, we have to decide, can we take care of every natural occurrence that goes on.