Congressman Meadows requested that I conduct this hearing and this review of mine safety, which is particularly important, as you know, to this district and this state, and to the country.

And we would welcome that. And the record is open for seven days.

No one benefits by anyone being injured, and certainly not by a fatality.

I will guarantee you I will handle those people and they will not forget the truth that I rub off.

There is an inconsistency, a fair inconsistency in their standards and their--the unpredictability of enforcement.

I think what you heard here today was a plea for some consistency and common sense.

But that being said, it sounds like the penalties, they have gone overboard with the penalties.

I am always quoted as saying, one of my favorite sayings to folks is don't assume members of Congress know anything, start from that proposition.

Well, maybe this will spark or be the genesis for looking at the law itself.

Maybe we need to go back and look at your agency.

I think it is important that that be updated.