The safety community strongly supports criminal penalties.

MAP-21 required NHTSA to make those bulletins available on its website searchable by the public by 2013.

But wouldn't you agree with me that that maximum fine is wholly inadequate as a measure of their failure?

I want to thank you for committing to me, when we first met, that you would do the right thing, and then, in fact, doing the right thing.

Well, that's the kind of reaction, Mr. Friedman, if I may, I mean no disrespect, but for the ordinary consumer, a car stalling repeatedly on highways or anywhere is a problem.

I'd also appreciate any contention in detail that you have disputing the New York Times story.

Secretary Hagel, what is the plan for the Department of Defense (DOD) to end the partial mobilization of the Reserve components?

But you would support the legislation that I proposed to remove that cap and others on this committee have supported it as well?

We can educate parents, but we can't rely on education alone.

I think that there has to be a more realistic attitude about what the real-life consequences are of the agency's performance.

NHTSA information and interaction with the public over vehicle safety recalls will be vastly improved if more information about recalls and defects is available.

I'd also like to ask you what you feel--taking up Senator Klobuchar's argument--what you feel can be done to expand the resources that you devote to investigation of defects.

You are the face of that failure.

we gather here today in this remarkable place--a symbol of freedom and democracy for the whole world--to remember the tragic, horrific, unspeakable attacks of September 11, 2001, and we remember the innocent lives that were lost, the…

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Thanks, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to you and Ranking Member Thune for having this hearing on a profoundly important issue.

When a freight train railroad network breaks down, it affects not only the movement of important goods--and a number of my colleagues have described how important it is--but it keeps real people and their families from getting to where…

What should we be doing to support additional infrastructure, which I consider to be the challenge of our time?

I know that much well.

People need it now when they need it.

The deterrent purpose of a criminal investigation, prosecution, and conviction is irreplaceable.

Well, hopefully not forever.

We are here to listen to you, not so much to talk.

I want to say that I hope that we will continue to be of a mind that this health care system is in crisis.

In effect, the prosecutors will be making those decisions, just as they would with any investigative agency, whether it be the FBI or the Drug Enforcement Administration.