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Eleanor Holmes Norton is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for the District of Columbia since 1991. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a strong advocate for D.C. statehood and local autonomy. Throughout her tenure, Norton has focused on issues such as civil rights, education, and public safety, often emphasizing the unique challenges faced by residents of the District of Columbia. She has been vocal against federal interference in local governance, arguing for the rights of D.C. residents to have representation and control over their own affairs.
Even if we give Mr. Rogoff the kind of perhaps authority he ought to have, I can tell you without fear of contradiction--leave aside the recession we are in, let's suppose we are in the false boom economy we just came out of--that there is…
Well, would you consider putting up a Web site and assigning each jurisdiction around a duty with respect to that?
So you don't have any enforcement authority, is that right? You can't tell them to do anything.
I tell you one thing, it's easy to go to sleep on any kind of moving vehicle, especially a train.
Your testimony has been really indispensable to this hearing. It's riveting testimony.
The choice should have been to put them in the middle so that either end would have the most crashworthy cars.
Why did you not recommend what looks like a common-sense recommendation that doesn't require a bunch of experts: 'Hey, at least don't make the crash occur in the front end or the back end?'
Therefore, faced with choices that you can pull 30 percent of your fleet that goes back almost 40 years or put them in the middle, the choice should have been to put them in the middle so that either end would have the most crashworthy…
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