03/19/2009
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"Congress, in the wake of this historic crash that so alarmed the country, many of us introduced a bill..."
"I was astonished that bus drivers... were being attacked apparently often enough so that a job action was threatened."
"Most of us did not know--I don't believe I knew until the crash--that there were no national rail standards."
"Metro bus and rail service plays an indispensable role in the day-to-day operations of the Federal Government."