Sam Graves: “I applaud the industry for tackling this issue head on, including proposing new ways to raise funds for research on…”

With your partnership, we can keep this momentum going, we can deliver good projects for more communities, and we can build and rebuild our transportation systems to meet the 21st, and even 22nd, century needs of Americans.

I don't have any further speakers, so I am prepared to close. I reserve the balance of my time.

I urge the Committee to take long overdue action on rail safety so that passengers and communities with rail in their backyards have a level of safety oversight and protection afforded to other modes of transportation.

I helped create two programs, Reconnecting Communities and Neighborhood Access and Equity, to begin redressing some of these harms.