I think that one of the lessons of today is that we need both resources and authority.

We need to make sure that the regulatory agencies are not victims of regulatory capture as happened, for example, in the financial industry in 2008.

I think it is safe to say that he never wants to have to manage something like TARP again.

Well, you need a different authority. Because, for example on cameras, is there a requirement that you go through the APA rulemaking process?

I think we're going to want all of you back and we're going to want you back soon.

There's nothing Republican or Democratic about it.

Thank you for organizing this hearing on the critically important topic of rail safety.

We need more investment in infrastructure and the ways to do it, whether it's an infrastructure bank, a railroad trust fund.

Thank you, Mr. Hart.

I've said before, and I'll say it again here, that four people might be alive today if some of these recommendations, including cameras facing inward and outward, alerters, automatic train control, had been implemented.

I hope to fill his shoes, in part, and thank my colleagues for joining me this morning.

There is a reason why Congress has mandated certain actions.

The transportation of products and people is absolutely essential to our economy.

I'm asking really for authority; whether the agencies need authority to expedite these rules, to issue emergency orders.

So maybe voluntary compliance isn't working as it should be.

But coming back to the recommendations for specific measures that might have prevented many of these incidents, my view is that we're behind. We've been lax and lagging and the question is why haven't those orders been forthcoming from…

Well, fixes in real time is the message. And they have got to be real fixes in much realer time.

voluntary agreements are no substitutes for enforceable rules any more than they are out on the highway

I'm somewhat disappointed to see... that both the Navy and the Marine Corps are reducing available funds.

I appreciate the comments that both of you have made. I have no question about your determination to improve and upgrade this system.

I would respectfully suggest... the sooner and better we can make those records systems completely interoperable and make the health care system completely seamless, the better it will be.

Why have there been no sanctions against Rosoboronexport?

I think it's also commendable.

What must we do to cease the delivery and payment for the 20 remaining Mi-17 helicopters?

They are dependent on those helicopters until they are not.