Political Quotes

“Mr. President, it shouldn't take a train derailment for elected officials to put partisanship aside and work together for the people whom we serve--not work for corporations like Norfolk Southern. That is why, this morning, I introduced bipartisan legislation with Senator Vance, my new Republican colleague, who has been here only about 2 months, and our colleagues Senator Rubio, Republican from Florida; Senator Casey, a longtime friend and Democrat from Pennsylvania; Senator Fetterman, also a freshman who has been here a couple of months, from Pennsylvania; and Senator Hawley from Missouri, to make trains safer as they go through places like East Palestine, OH. Railroad company lobbyists spent years fighting every effort that we could make to make our trains and our rail lines safer. Now Ohioans have seen it, and Georgia has seen it, and the Presiding Officer, the senior Senator from Georgia, has seen it in his State. Ohioans have seen these rail crashes, these derailments, just in the last 4 months. The one in East Palestine is the best known because the damage was the greatest. But there was also one in Sandusky, on Lake Erie, the greatest body of fresh water in the world, in the Great Lakes; and also in Steubenville, on the Ohio River. Those are the two greatest natural resources that our State has, the Ohio River and Lake Erie. It affects drinking water and all kinds of things--recreation for so many people.…”