The public needs to know, short of spending money, do the experts have a response that can increase our feeling of safety when we get aboard the Red Line that we have no alternativ...
Frankly, I think that the victims and the public is entitled to hear any interim step we can take, however minor.
So should some other Federal agency have been charged as more and more cities and States developed mass transit systems?
This hearing is not about assigning cause. We don't have the slightest idea. Nobody could possibly know.
Even if we give Mr. Rogoff the kind of perhaps authority he ought to have, I can tell you without fear of contradiction-...
What Federal law prohibits you from acting?
Well, I mean, you would maintain it. Do you have any staff?
How many staff do you have?
Indeed, the financial incentive was, in fact, to do this.
Wasn't that counterproductive, to say, 'OK, take away their money,' when they don't have any money?
Just your luck, Mr. Catoe.