Congress gave the DOT the authority to protect our air carriers and the traveling public from what is unilateral taxation, in effect.
The United States is a leader in aerospace design and manufacturing.
The industry continues to face a number of challenges.
And, you know, one way we could get fewer trains in North Dakota is to horizontally drill from South Dakota.
The railroads are so important in our part of the country.
I hope that our committee will consider this bill in the coming months.
there's a lot of pressure on the railroads, obviously, to comply with and to meet the 2015 deadline.
I am particularly interested in the safety issues involved in transporting crude oil from the Bakken region.
The railroads have run into a lot of obstacles and their efforts to meet this 2015 PTC deadline.
I worry that the current statutory deadline of December 2015 is unrealistic for most passenger and freight railroads.
there are a number of us on the Committee who are co-sponsoring legislation that would extend that by a reasonable amoun...