Mr. Millar, your testimony is replete with standards. I mean, they're the kind of standards that I think the public thought were required.

Indeed, the financial incentive was, in fact, to do this.

I want to once again thank Chairman Stephen Lynch for his attention to Metro by responding to my request early in his tenure as the new Chair of this subcommittee with a hearing on April 24th, and again today granting my request for this…

When you develop standards, have you found that transit systems across the United States readily develop these standards, and did WMATA do so?

This hearing is not about assigning cause. We don't have the slightest idea. Nobody could possibly know.

You know these people cannot replace these cars. And you have done your duty over and over again and said, 'Replace those cars.'

What was the reason, do you believe, we prohibited ourselves from providing for the safety of the public and rapid transit the way we do in other common carriers?

Wasn't that counterproductive, to say, 'OK, take away their money,' when they don't have any money?

Just your luck, Mr. Catoe.

Therefore, in this hearing, we are really looking for answers. It is real easy to say, 'Spend a billion dollars, and you will be safe,' but I have to ask you whether you are prepared, at least in the future, to look at interim…

I needed your testimony on the record, however, because if we want to really do something besides put up the money in the future...

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 alternative but to board?