Peter DeFazio

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

That is total BS, to begin with.

I share the gentleman's frustration about the FAA. I talked to Secretary Buttigieg last weekend and said we need a transformative manager, leader of the FAA.

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.

The recent WHO numbers for climate change were in terms of the 'single biggest health threat facing humanity.'

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 Class Is finally acknowledge they have a service problem, but in statements made before us three months ago and your Board a month ago, they don't acknowledge that there is a fundamental problem with the industry as a result of Wall…

I strongly encourage the board to make the use of passenger rail a condition in the Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern merger.

I do believe that where existing rail lines can continue to be used for rail they should be, and where abandoned lines can be brought back into rail service in a way that makes economic sense and has public support, that should happen, too.

I mean, yes, my State actually partnered with Union Pacific--I hope they are listening--to do more sidings between Eugene and Portland, where we have trains that can run faster than the freight track can handle, but it takes 3 hours or…

Rail labor and shippers really haven't agreed on many things, but they both recommend that we do a better job of defining the common carrier obligation.

The rail system is broken, and it needs fixing. We need you to fix it, or we will.

I urge the STB to incentivize the railroads to act like railroads, and not Wall Street cash cows.

My goal is simple. I want freight rail companies to be successful, but that success should be defined by the amount of freight they move across the nation.

Let me be crystal clear that if the STB doesn't move more quickly to rise to the occasion, this committee will legislate.

We need the STB to do more to meet those mandates.

I want freight railroads to be successful. I do. But that success should be defined by the amount of freight they move across the Nation.

If you don't move decisively, and don't rise to this occasion, which is a looming crisis, this committee will legislate.

Consolidation in the railroad industry has created a system of regional duopolies and the railroads understandable desire to maximize profits has come into conflict with railroads' common carrier obligation.

The evil ghost of Hunter Harrison lives on. The legacy of this man is disgusting.

The facts are undeniable. Freight service in the United States of America--we used to have the best freight rail in the world--is abysmal.

We are at a point of crisis, and we have to deal with that crisis meaningfully.

There is legislation that my colleague Representative Charlie Crist has proposed (H.R.2136) to promote you, as the Commandant of the Coast Guard, to a full voting member of the Joint Chiefs.

Requirements in legislation will be helpful in strengthening service contracts, specifying ocean carrier obligations in serving the export market.

Yes, and provisions in both the House and Senate versions of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA) will allow us to do so.