Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"there is an obligation. It certainly is an ethical, in my view, obligation, if not a legal obligation, for Con Ed to make whole, to compensate, to reimburse Metro-North and others who suffered as a re..."

"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."