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Written Testimony: Rail Safety Hearing

Chairman, Ranking Member, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today, on behalf of Secretary LaHood, to discuss the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) rail safety program. Rail is a particularly safe mode of transportation, and one that Americans are...