This is evidenced by multiple amputations and crushing injuries recently occurring to newly promoted conductors.

Employees fortunate enough to have not been affected by the cuts are now voluntarily walking away from what was once the premier blue-collar job in the Nation.

We have got to do something about this, and I hope that the administration will use the discretion they have to deal with that.

Making real, substantial progress towards saving lives requires a strong commitment to safety as the highest priority.

Just yesterday, I sent a letter, along with Ranking Member Graves, to Secretary Buttigieg urging U.S. DOT to use the vast resources and authorities provided by Congress in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to invest in projects to address…

This money needs to be invested to resolve these problems. For years, all we emphasized was fast throughput for cars and trucks.

The House version of the infrastructure bill included $1 billion for truck parking. There is an absolutely critical shortage of truck parking.

We look forward to working with this committee and Congress as well as NHTSA to find technological solutions to traffic deaths and injuries.

Most of the state's funding from FHWA is directed toward added capacity to the roadway transportation system.

The American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) does not support the flex or transfer of any available funds out of the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP).

Yesterday, Ranking Member Sam Graves joined me in a letter to the Secretary asking them to find a way to use some of their discretionary money.

Unfortunately, AASHTO also resists any attempts at, shall we say, dedicating directly money and impinging upon their flexibility.

Let us be clear, too, that despite the forward strides of the IIJA, more can be done legislatively to promote technological innovation that improves roadway safety.

For me, as a mother of teenagers, our society's failure to ensure the safety of our roadways is personal.

This shows the concern about safety and of the extraordinary increase in fatalities year over year, largest single annual increase ever recorded since we started keeping these statistics.

We knew this road was dangerous. We knew it could be fatal--because it had been fatal.

I believe the same considerations that drove Florida to move in this direction, would apply to many states.

We are kind of pathetic in terms of our world ranking: 64th in fatalities per capita on our roadways in America.

One size, as the ranking member noted, will not fit all, but we want everybody to identify these areas where they are experiencing high fatalities and use these Federal funds to invest and fix it.

We know our roads are unsafe. We know they are fatal. We know what change is needed--and we have the technology to make that change cost-effectively.

This is a really important hearing examining different infrastructure, technologies, and other initiatives airports, stakeholders, and airlines are using to mitigate... carbon pollution and climate change.

the totally dysfunctional Senate, in writing its version behind closed doors, left out that provision, among many others, that could potentially deal with climate change, since the bill was written by climate deniers.

That is total BS, to begin with.

But we shouldn't wait to act until we experience even more disastrous effects of climate change.

According to the World Health Organization, climate change is the 'single biggest health threat facing humanity.'