Donald Payne Jr.: “I appreciate each of our witnesses being here today.”

It is time for Congress to require that freight railroads participate in the Confidential Close Call Reporting System.

The few times that I don't use Amtrak to come to work, I drive down, and I have to leave between midnight and 4 o'clock in the morning in order to bypass all that traffic between New Jersey and Washington, DC.

This is a crucial hearing because many of my constituents and all New Jerseyans understand that Amtrak service is critical to our economy and to our livelihood.

I know one of the reasons they are still missing, because nobody took the time to make sure they took an accounting of where these children were.