Bourg, strategic development, Wabtec Corporation. Chris matthews, assistant Vice President , Network Control systems, bnsf of railway, and jim derwinski, chief executive officer and executive director of metro. Todays hearing will evaluate progress in implementation positive train control, ptc, and examine potential challenges in meeting the final implementation deadline of december 31, 2020. As recent Committee Hearings have highlighted, ptc is an Important Technology that has the ability to prevent accidents, including overspeed derailments, such as the tragic derailment in dupont, washington in 2017, as well as preventing traintotrain collisions. Ptc enforcement and implementation act, passed by congress and signed into law by president obama in october 2015, required railroads to implement ptc by december 31, 2018, however it allowed a railroad to apply for an extension of up to 24 months if, and only if, a railroad met important milestones. I am pleased to say that under secretary
Expected to hear from rail representatives to prevent train accidents. Good afternoon. Today the committee gathers for a hearing to examine the next steps in positive train control implementation. Im glad to convene this hearing on this important issue with my friend and colleague Ranking Member senator cantwell. I want to thank our panel of witnesses for appearing. Mr. Ron batori, administrator of the railroad administration, susan, director of infrastructure, u. S. Government accountability office. Bob, Vice President of Strategic Development web tech corporation. Chris matthews assistant Vice President of Network Control systems. And jim, chief executive officer and executive director of metro. Todays hearing will evaluate progress, implementation of positive train control, ptc and examine the potential challenges in meeting the final implementation deadline of december 31st, 2020. As recent Committee Hearings have highlighted ptc is an Important Technology which has the ability to
Redacted whereupon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency, told them to redo and send back in proper form. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel, dan, what do you make of the president s decision to say, send it back and not declassify and renegotiate . Well, we have not seen the democrats memo, we dont know what was redacted, we have to assume that since they talked to fbi director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein about the content of the memo theres something substantive at the center of it. Mr. Wray and rosenstein had their own letter that they sent simultaneously to the democrats raising the questions and i have to say, paul, god knows what the American People are making of this right now. I mean, they must feel like they they were sucked in novel. You have one set of memos dueling with another set of memos. Go back to the beginning of this, this is ultimately about whethe
Redacted whereupon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency, told them to redo and send back in proper form. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel, dan, what do you make of the president s decision to say, send it back and not declassify and renegotiate . Well, we have not seen the democrats memo, we dont know what was redacted, we have to assume that since they talked to fbi director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein about the content of the memo theres something substantive at the center of it. Mr. Wray and rosenstein had their own letter that they sent simultaneously to the democrats raising the questions and i have to say, paul, god knows what the American People are making of this right now. I mean, they must feel like they they were sucked in novel. You have one set of memos dueling with another set of memos. Go back to the beginning of this, this is ultimately about whethe
Redacted whereupon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency, told them to redo and send back in proper form. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist and Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim strassel, dan, what do you make of the president s decision to say, send it back and not declassify and renegotiate . Well, we have not seen the democrats memo, we dont know what was redacted, we have to assume that since they talked to fbi director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein about the content of the memo theres something substantive at the center of it. Mr. Wray and rosenstein had their own letter that they sent simultaneously to the democrats raising the questions and i have to say, paul, god knows what the American People are making of this right now. I mean, they must feel like they they were sucked in novel. You have one set of memos dueling with another set of memos. Go back to the beginning of this, this is ultimately about whethe