For a u. S. District court judge in ohio. It is also the first opportunity for members to speak on the floor sense election day. Watch live Senate Coverage on cspan2 and the house on cspan. Amtrak president and ceo William Flynn was on capitol hill to testify on how the coronavirus affects the Passenger Rail system and what amtrak is doing in response. The Senate Commerce of science and Transportation Committee also heard from representatives of the freight Rail Industry and about the challenges they are facing as a result of the pandemic. This hearing is just over two and half hours. Order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network
Here. Good morning to discuss the status of the National Rail network to have 140,000 miles of rail seven class one railroads and thousands of companies to ship products ands Raw Materials also and Intercity Passenger Rail Service operating on 22000 miles of that same network todays first panel president and ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation and the Economic Developers association testifying we will be. The Vice President corporation on behalf of the American Council mr. Randee gordon and the chairman to testify remotely and he didnt jeffries president and ceo association of american railroads and dennis pierce president of the teamsters rail conference. During this covid pandemic. In 1970 the real Passenger Service act was adopted to relieve our railroads on the common carrier to carry passengers. The statue created amtrak and provided real runs can be used by amtrak to offer intercity passenger real service, returns and compensation that are just
This hearing will come to order. Thank you all for being here, good morning. Today the committee can means to discuss the status of the National Rail network in the country is 140,000 miles of freight rail in class one railroads over 600 freight railroads and thousands of Companies Using braille to ship products and raw materials, we also have an intercity passenger real service amtrak operating on 22000 miles of the same network including over 500 stations. Todays first panel of witnesses will feature mr. William flynn ceo of amtrak and the executive director of the Development Corporation in Montana Development association who will testify remotely. Todays second panel will include mr. Frank Vice President Global Supply chain on behalf of of the council testifying remotely, mr. Randy, the president and ceo of the association, the chairman and National Council testifying remotely in the association of American Railroad and mr. Dennis pierce, president teamsters real conference testify
Authorizing the release of certain grand jury materials in the case. For the u. S. Department of justice, mr. Letter. Judge rogers good morning. Good morning, your honor. The District Court, so this court could have an opportunity to review the import questions of the day. The court denied that motion, even though it is clear that once the issues are disclosed, they cannot be undisclosed. Nrungell cannot be ou afterthefact. The court denied that motion on the left because of merit, but as we explained, the District Court committed at least two serious errors of law in granting the request. Judge griffith you can start with irreparable harm. It is the case that if we agree with the District Court, the irreparable harm is not that important. Mr. Freeman i disagree with that. Our intention in the case judge griffith you thought you were likely to lose on merits . What significance is it . Mr. Freeman i agree with that. In terms of the irreparable harm , the disclosure of grand jury inform
Weve explained in our motion the District Court committed at least two serious errors of law in granting the request. Start with the it is the case, however, that we agreed with the District Court on the irreparable harm is not that important. Our contention in this case we thought that we would like to [inaudible] i agree with you that we have to show that dont agree we dont have that that the disclosure of grand jury information from a massive criminal investigation that concluded only eight months ago, there are only 25 pending criminal matters that come out of that proceedings. There are 2800 criminal grand jury subpoenas in connection directly to the material thats exactly the yes, and thats the point on our second argument that thats the committees burden to demonstrate that. Well, i suggest that the courts findings plus special counsel supports volume two, plus, what the said in the supplemental statements during oral arguments seems to specify why it thinks certain material is