Our nation must stay interconnected.
Rebuilding our infrastructure is not just a priority, it is an imperative for our economy.
The participation today of five Cabinet Secretaries in today's hearing... underscores the Administration's readiness and enthusiasm.
We are all here today in the interest of advancing safety to protect the traveling public.
These accidents underscore the importance of implementing PTC quickly, safely, and successfully.
This Committee, on a bipartisan basis, took action to avert a rail shutdown and set a realistic framework for implementation.
We are now about 10 months away from the December 31, 2018, statutory deadline for PTC.
We convene today's hearing at a critical time for positive train control, or PTC, implementation.
I appreciate the priorities you have laid out in the President's budget, particularly the emphasis on addressing drug prices, opioids, and r...
However, as I have said before, money alone cannot solve those problems.
Noah Phillips, of course, is a part of our family here in the Senate.