02/25/2013
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"we also need to have the active commitment of President Barack Obama and his administration to find emergency stimulus dollars for immediate assistance with these infrastructure issues."
"This is the Nation's Capital. It's arguably been called the capital of the free world. And the Federal Government has some responsibility, beyond the initial construction costs, to help make sure that..."
"And is it also true, to your knowledge, that there is no Federal standard in terms of crashworthiness and safety of passengers on transit systems; there is for rail systems like Amtrak, but there is n..."
"This is an issue that has come out of the regional delegation's examination of the tragedy of June 22nd, this anomaly in Federal regulation where we do regulate for hard railcars on railroad systems, ..."