So the work of this Committee to continue to highlighting your work is going to be necessary in order to actually see these actions taken, the things that you are recommending.
This is a very important position. Unfortunately, we have a lot of IG positions that have been going unfilled for too long.
Every day we delay, we increase the odds of another tragic accident.
But this system could have slowed this train down had it been identified?
So a minor correction on this track could have prevented this accident and saved these lives?
I would certainly hope that we need to have another hearing after the NTSB has come back with their findings.
We have to move forward with the utmost haste to get this job done.
Perhaps that is what our focus needs to be, to do our job, making sure the FAA has the resources necessary to continue to go forward.
It seems to me ultimately it falls back on Congress, that we are not doing our job here in providing the resources necessary to implement Ne...
The government must maintain a role in governance of the system since the FAA is ultimately the guarantor of the public interest.
Local police I think are best suited for this because the local police are the ones who will respond if somebody throws a rock through the m...