Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"The contingency plan, in other words, or the backup system would be solely Metro-North's responsibility. Is that your view?"

"There would be sufficient power supply from these other substations to compensate for the alternative neighboring substation if it went offline?"

"Our nation has been laggard and lax in making sufficient investments."

"So my belief--and I think a rational person would conclude--is that the fact that this cable was 6 years beyond its normal design life was a contributing factor, if not the cause, of perhaps its deter..."