I am glad to see that Chairman Nehls' legislation ensures two-person crews.

The safety of freight and passenger railroads and the communities that they travel through should be our top priority on this subcommittee.

I'm hopeful that the information from today's hearing will encourage us to mark up this legislation and send a bipartisan rail safety bill to the floor.

The safety of freight and passenger railroads, and the communities they travel through, should be our top priority.

My top priority has always been rail safety, and I am thankful that our chair has made it a priority with this legislation alongside other members of this committee.

There is only about 4 percent of the aviation safety inspectors right now that are women, and most of them look more like me, and that is really not an acceptable way to continue on and ignore it.

Diesel emissions are known to create higher health risks, childhood asthma, and cancer.

Railroad tracks in this country have too often existed as a symbol of division, inequity and a legacy of racial oppression.

For the residents of my district who live in south Florida, these threats are not just concerning, they are existential.

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The industry's response to this regulation should not be to sue CARB.