Transportation funding challenges are not just a transportation policy issue, but a science and technology issue.

Positive Train Control technology would have stopped the train from taking a 50 mile-per-hour turn at a speed of 106 miles per hour.

A shortfall in RD&T funding would have real life consequences on technological advancements involving not just cars, trucks and trains, but highways, bridges and pipelines too.

So you'd have saving lives, and then saving money, potentially, so----

It is essential that we find a way to maintain a healthy, substantive research base for our state and local transportation initiatives.

How--to what extent is DOT communicating the results of your research on these new technologies to the states and localities so they can then implement it?

The products that flow through our networks of highways, railroads, and pipelines are the lifeblood of our country's economy.

We have a constitutional obligation and a responsibility to ensure every dollar allocated for scientific research is spent as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Basic research is about good jobs and a secure future. We want to be strong advocates for federal support of basic research that advances science in the national interest.

You know, if one of the reasons why they are doing this is they are trying to reach more people to say hey, you might be eligible, you know, whatever you are doing, aren't there other much safer ways to do that?

This Administration ultimately has a responsibility to ensure that personal data collected is secure, and Congressional oversight will continue until the Administration has proved that it is doing all it can to protect the American people.