If every wheel on a freight train had a temperature sensor like that that transmitted directly to the locomotive engineer to detect any unexplained rise in temperature, would that make trains safer?

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Based on the data we have today, Mr. Bose, would longer trains, fewer personnel for operations and maintenance, and less reinvestment in infrastructure improve railroad safety?

We want the railroads to be safer and more competitive, and to take more trucks off the highways.

The point of this bill is not to wreck the railroads, but to improve their safety and competitiveness.

SMART-TD is extremely thankful to Chairman Nehls and Congressman Moulton for introducing H.R. 8996, the Railroad Safety Enhancement Act of 2024.

This bill is truly bipartisan. And my colleague, Chairman Nehls, has been a wonderful partner.

This is the kind of innovation included in this bill. This is innovation that will make railroads safer, that will move this industry forward, that will make them more competitive.

I want to associate myself with those remarks, and I am very proud of the piece of legislation that we have put together.

We need to show the country that we can lead, that we can lead change and that we can make the change we need to win.

As painful as this is, as much as I respect Joe Biden, as much as I love the work that he's done as a president as a Senator for decades, we need a change.

You can't tell the American people to deny what they saw with their own eyes.