the cut-off valves--they're kind of basic things.
Please mandate a complete review of the effectiveness of the industry-written, PHMSA-adopted program for public awarenes...
Please require companies to upgrade their pipelines in populated areas to accommodate this in-line inspection technology...
Please, require remote valves in law for high-consequence areas this time.
Without objection.
Trains are 17 percent more energy efficient than airplanes, and over 20 percent more efficient than cars.
I, for one, believe that we have to make sure that there is more investment in passenger rail, in freight rail.
We have to keep goods moving swiftly throughout the country, and that's why I recently introduced the Freight Act.
Two years ago, we took a major step forward, and I used passenger rail as a companion with my law to reauthorize Amtrak.
Just 2 weeks ago, President Obama called for more investment in rail, and put it, and I quote, 'on an equal footing in o...
A single freight train takes 280 trucks off the road.