College athlete and then went on to play in the nfl and has strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently that we have problems out there as mr. Miller pointed out that need to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the action of a regional director of the National Labor board who suggested these athletes are employees and therefore could, if they chose, vote to join a union. So we explored some of the possible downsides of that issue. We heard from witnesses here that talked about how would this deal with class attendance and practice times, attending games, how many games, what about walkon players, or universities that are public and dont fall under the National Labors act and a host of potential problems. I appreciate the testimony of the witness today as we start to explore that. I dont think there is a person on this committee that doesnt agree we need to address the issues we talked about. The question is is unionization of som
Knight when the networks decided they needed a midweek game. Now it depends on what conference youre in, how many days of school you missed. You can keep defending it. I would work on changing it. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman, for this hearing. I thank the gentleman. Im going to thank the witnesses. A lot of expertise, real knowledge, appreciate everything you had to offer. Quite a diversity and experiences and positions here. Somebody who was a toplevel College Athlete and then went on to play in the nfl has very strong feelings and opinions about these issues and has pointed out very eloquently, mr. Eilers, that weve got problems out there as mr. Miller, again very passionately, pointed out that needed to be addressed. What brought this hearing together was the actions of a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board who suggested that these athletes are employees and, therefore, could, if they chose, vote to join a union. And so we explored some of the possible down
Trauma risks. They are asking to prevent players from being stuck paying sports related medical expenses. They are asking that Graduation Rates increase. They are asking that Educational Opportunities for student athletes in Good Standing be protected. They are asking that universities be prohibited from using a permanent injury suffered during athletics as a reason to reduce or eliminate a scholarship. They are asking to establish and enforce uniform safety guidelines in all sports to help prevent serious injuries and avoidable deaths, and they are asking to prohibit the punishment of College Athletes that have not xhited a crime. Is in any one on that list thats unreasonable . Is there any piece of that that your institution would say, no, im awfully sorry, we cant do that. Or let me phrase it positively. Would you each be willing to lead an effort in your respective conferences to see to it that your fellow member institutions say, absolutely, guys. You are absolutely right. Were go
A danger to our citizens and our communities. Secretary fox announced the rule making for the safe transport of crude oil in july of 2014. Were still waiting for those final rules but the longer we delay, the more that lives are actually in danger. And those standards call for tank cars both retro fitting old cars and building new ones for tank car thickness the length of time how long the shippers have to refurbish or build new cars and the speed and routes which these trains take, all of this is in this rule making. I think its critical for us to get some certitude in terms of what the new rules are going to be. So mr. Brown, and mr. Lonegro, just a question to the two of you. About a year ago, jenese whoa eming train carrying 2. 7 million gallons of crude oil derailed in alabama, derailed and spilled oil all over the wet lands. I want to ask to see what your company is doing to make sure that is not happening again. And last year a scx train auto derailed in virginia and spilled 30,
Coal. Well, in terms of the various commodities that you mentioned often they are in different types of equipment. Cole is handled in coal cars and oil is handled in tank cars and agriculture are certainly in covered hoppers. So its different types of equipment. We certainly endeavor to have the available supply of cars either through our car 1 partners or those that we provide ourselves for our customers to be able to move the amount of commodity that they wish to ship. As that grows we try to keep pace with additional equipment throughout the various market segments. So in terms of the oil business, we know that price is reduced the volume has lessened greatly so in some cases we have some of those cars in a storage status but maybe mr. Lonegro deals with it on a much larger scale than i do. Thanks. David is right they all move in different pieces of equipment. In the crude situation specifically, the grand majority of those are privately owned by the shippers not by any of the railr