Thank you, chairwoman brown. I now recognize mr. Gardner, you may proceed. Mr. Gardner thank you, chairman lipinsk lipinski, the Ranking Member, and thank you for the opportunity to testify today Service Transportation boards key role in enabling amtrak to effectively serve the nation. Strongly support the s. T. B. Needs ieve the board updated authority for Passenger Rail so we can achieve the ontime evels and erformance your constituents deserve. Ongress took amtrak on for the job. Common carrier obligations for assengers and the associated operating losses for passenger service, the freights agreed to whereverrak to operate and whenever it wanted over their lives. Trains with trak dispatching preference over freight and to empower what is the s. T. B. To ensure amtraks access to the rail network. 50 years since the Freight Railroads agreed eagerly to this bargain and yet many of our host railroads fall short in ulfilling some of these key obligation obligations. Mr. Gardner, if youll
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New week, jim, with the focus once again on a resurgence of cases in certain parts of the country for the virus. Concerns about china, as well. And then the overall as we, of course, know, expectations regarding the economy and what the impact may or may not be as a result of what i just mentioned. Well, i think that its always surprising to me as someone who i think lived through it like you do that people in some of these states did realize the level of contagion. I mean, this is one when youre in the room with someone who has it, youre going to get it if you touch someone who has it, youre going to get it i dont know, did people feel they were immune i think there was a sense that maybe new york was isolated. I dont think this will be like new york because i think they learned how to treat people. So, i think the big scare of the hospitals being overloaded will only be perhaps some i mean, we had a war zone here in new york. I dont think that will happen there. The chinese situation