Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"a lot of riders have lost trust and confidence, not only in the railroad, but also in the enforcement authority of the FRA"

"We are here at a moment of tremendous promise and peril for our Nation's transportation system."

"the Highway Trust Fund will go broke in July, just next month."

"standards need to be sufficiently high, they need to be enforced rigorously, and that penalties have to provide a deterrent to violation of them."