Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"One point is very clear, and that is that Con Ed should be reimbursing Metro-North, Amtrak, and others for all the costs that occurred in this service outage--$2 million a day is estimated to have bee..."

"But your point, Mr. Permut, if I can just cut through what you just said, is that, essentially, there was no plan in this instance for the Mount Vernon substation, either Dunwoodie or Washington Stree..."

"Because you had the contract authority from Congress to get that money out of the trust fund, as you've talked about, Senator Blumenthal, we built it."

"The fact of the matter is that I was dismayed and frustrated and outraged as much as that commuter and others by the 12-day service disruption caused by Con Ed's failure to carry out its work and prep..."