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Role of Human Factors in Rail Accidents

Subcommittee Chairwoman Brown, Ranking Committee Member Shuster, Representative Gonzales, and other Members of the Committee, I am very pleased to be here in San Antonio today, on behalf of the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), to...

Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2008 as it relates to FRA and Amtrak

Chairman Olver, Ranking Member Knollenberg, I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today on behalf of Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters and the Bush Administration to discuss the President’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2008 as it relates to the Federal Railroad Administration...

Safety Reauthorization

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FRA Rail Safety Program

At your May 22 hearing, also on this subject, FRA’s witness Associate Administrator for Safety Jo Strang included in her testimony an overview of FRA’s day-to-day work to reduce the number and the severity of railroad accidents, a status report on the agency’s implementation of our National Rail...

America's Freight and Passenger Railroads

My testimony today first provides an overview of FRA’s railroad safety program and addresses the railroad industry’s safety record. In light of the August 1st disaster in Minneapolis involving the collapse of an interstate highway bridge, I will then address the issue of railroad bridge safety....

Rail Competition and Service

The U.S. Department of Transportation appreciates the opportunity to submit this statement for the record for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s hearing on Rail Competition and Service.