These cable providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next a house transportation and infrastructure subcommittee hears testimony from amtrak c. E. O. Steven gardner and the executive director of the northwest Corridor Commission on improving Train Service and efficiency. They also discuss passenger safety, route options in the midwest and west coast and high speed rail. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the subcommittee will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair may call recess at any time. Without objection, so ordered. I recognize myself for Opening Statement for five minutes. Todays hearing examines the current and future state of amtrak. The Infrastructure Investment and job act gave historic funding to railroads with a large portion of that money going to amtrak. Amtrak is a federally chartere
Railway. A native of new orleans, mr. Moorman grew up in mississippi and educated at the Georgia Institute of technology and harvard university. Last month mr. Moorman announced plans to step down from his current role. D about a year and a half. And he completes his time at amtrak at the end of the year, he says thats longer than he originally planned to. We invited him here to talk about amtraks continuing budget woes, derailments, customer complaints about service, the famous stampede at penn station where 16 people were injured. Repair plans for what some commuters are calling the summer of hell in new york city. And the needed infrastructure that the Rail Industry needs in being required to keep itself open and running smoothly. Richard anderson, a former Airline Executive from delta airlines, somebody from a very different vein coming in and on boarding as an executive, theyre now coceos, at the end of the year richard will have to put his wings down and put his rail cars on. In
Railway. A native of new orleans, mr. Moorman grew up in mississippi and educated at the Georgia Institute of technology and harvard university. Last month mr. Moorman announced plans to step down from his current role. D about a year and a half. And he completes his time at amtrak at the end of the year, he says thats longer than he originally planned to. We invited him here to talk about amtraks continuing budget woes, derailments, customer complaints about service, the famous stampede at penn station where 16 people were injured. Repair plans for what some commuters are calling the summer of hell in new york city. And the needed infrastructure that the Rail Industry needs in being required to keep itself open and running smoothly. Richard anderson, a former Airline Executive from delta airlines, somebody from a very different vein coming in and on boarding as an executive, theyre now coceos, at the end of the year richard will have to put his wings down and put his rail cars on. In
Prior to taking the helm as a transition c. E. O. Of amtrak he spent approximately four decades at Norfolk Southern corporation and its predecessor southern railway. A native of new orleans he primarily grew up in hattiesburg, mississippi, and was educated at the Georgia Institute of technology and harvard university. Last month, he announced plans to step down from his current role, hell have served about a year and a half when he steps down at the end of the year. He said thats longer than he planned to. Before that we invited him here to talk about amtraks woes, customer complaints about service, the stampede at penn station where 16 people were injured, plans for what come commuters are calling the summer of hell in new york city and the needed infrastructure that the Rail Industry needs and being required to keep itself open and running smoothly. As of today, his announced successor, richard anderson, a former Airline Executive with Delta Airlines which is a new thing and somebody
3. Recess for 15 minutes and come back at 5 45 so everyone can go over and vote and be back and hear what everyone elses question. We thank you for being here mr. Secretary again. So promptly. We appreciate that youve made time to appear before this Committee Twice in h a weeks time passing an annual state department bill is one of the fundamental responsibilities of this committee. When we shirk that responsibility and decline to exercise our oversight we in essence surrender our authority and we fail to do the job our constituents sent us here to do. Restoring is this annual practice was a top priority of mine when he became thachairmand im proud of the progress we made last year when the first authorization bill in 14 years became law and i want to thank everybody on this committee for making that happen. However, because of previous inaction, there are programs at the department that have not been appropriately reviewed and analyzed in well over a decade. This lack of oversight res