Season and waves new technology reduce heatrelated deaths. Child who died after being left in a hot car. This is about 40 minutes. Ms. Schakowsky the chair now recognizes herself for five minutes or for an opening statement. Good morning and thank you for being with us today during todays hearing is about promoting auto safety and raising awareness about the threats families face on our nations roads and off the roads as well as we enter summer driving season. Threats ise vehicular heatstroke, when a child is left in a car. I would like to introduce two families who have endured those strategies and turned the pain into advocating to make sure no child ever dies in an overheating car. Harrison, froml personal, virginia, they are the parents of a child who died at 8, 2008months on july after being unknowingly left in a hot car. Hawley of charlotte, north , her child was four weeks old when he was unknowingly left in their family car. Fortunately, his parents realized quickly their mista
Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastructure and how build grants are being utilized. Are the Commerce Committee considers reauthorizing the fast act, i plan on working with members on both sides of the aisle to auth
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Inspections by the house transportation subcommittee hearing is about three hours. [background noises] is mick. [background noises] a subcommittee on a visual consort is unescos at the chairman authorized to declare recess without objections ordered also ask you nose consent subcommittee and ask questions that objection prints ordered. I was reminded members wishing to insert documents in the record please also email the documents i dont recognize myself for the purpose of an Opening Statement for five minutes. Thank you for being here administrator whitaker. I want to first off congratulate you for your unanimous confirmation vote. As you know achieving Something Like that in todays times is quite remarkable. Really appreciate your expertise head look forward to working with you. I hope you understand the strong support from congress but also enormous recognition of the responsibility of the job youve now taken on. We have heard a lot of descriptions about americas Aviation Industry.
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