"Well, I think that what we have got here is we had a rule in place that had reduced traffic deaths, fatalities, accidents by truckers by 29 percent I think is what Ms. Meng said and that we have done a study with 27 graduate students in Washington and determined that maybe possibly we might be able ..."
"I do think it is arrogance. I absolutely think it is arrogance. I think we need to rethink. We need to reset."
"The whole thing is American competitiveness."
"So we do not want to insert the government into their lives any more than we need to."
"Now, today, is it not 20, 30 percent below what it was 15 years ago?"
"Actually, it is such a small percentage that we will not even know if these rules are having any effect, will we?"
"My point is we do not know if it is going to save any lives."
"Did your study in its analysis of these 19 lives that could be saved, did it take into account the fact that truckers are now going to be moved into rush hour traffic?"
"All right. Today, how many trucking fatalities from trucking accidents are there average in America today?"
"I think we need to have a conversation about what the Federal role is."
"I totally agree, you know, and I think one of the problems we suffer from here in this job as legislators is we think that we need to issue all these laws to protect people from things that just aren'..."