don t discourage them. i agree it is a good service but as it is right now, it is not providing adequate protection. let me ask about age verification. i know some companies may differ with me on this but my impression is that there is really not a way that exist yet to truly get rocksolid age verification and filling in your birthdate obviously kids can put in a different date and they may be off to the races. so, am i wrong on that? is there not a really good, solid way to do age verification yet or tell me what the problems are right now? it has always been a challenge and i think you are exactly right to say there is no rocksolid way to do it. there are a number of different techniques or go facebook itself i think as developed some pretty good systems to do age verification. i think they probably get it right at a very high level, which is to say i would be very surprised if it were a large number of accounts for kids under 13. there may be some out there. i would su
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at this hearing and also to have the opportunity to have a texas presence at the hearing because you and i, mr. chairman, have worked far long time on amtrak, keeping amtrak viable and i will say that possibilities for high-speed rail, it becomes even more important to have the national system have the opportunity for high speed rail to connect into amtrak and provide better synergism and ridership and service to amtrak and the high speed rail that i do think will help ease the traffic congestion in many parts of our country. i was pleased that you mentioned the amtrak reauthorization bill last year. the first amtrak authorization bill, before this last one, was 1997, and i sponsored that as chairman of the service transportation subcommittee. i think we did some great reforms to begin the process of having a federal partnership for capital grant programs for state, be able to invest in rail and that is an important step forward to making it more viable. any successful rail p
forward and i think could go right into amtrak. it can have a lot of great results, and i hope that it is one of the first projects that can get some of the stimulus funding that would be available, and i think it s great that she s here to talk about the national system and i just want to recognize governor rendell who is also someone i ve worked with a long time and his brother is actually my constituent, and also a good friend and someone that with hill i have worked in dallas and texas, so we have a lot of interest here and i look forward to hearing from the witnesses and it s a very distinguished panel. thank you very much, stir chairman. .. forgo additional opening statements and we ll try to deal with this expeditiously and have just five-minute rounds or six-minute rounds maybe to give just an extra minute for use as the members see it. i d like to introduce the witness panel. a good friend and governor ed rendell of pennsylvania. just like the people of new jersey, o