whirlwind of action on capitol hill this wednesday morning. you could say it s a congressional hearing palooza on a slate of urgent topics from the origin of covid, the safety of air travel, the u.s. evacuation of afghanistan, and threats from around the world. that last topic is the focus of a hearing set to begin any second with the senate intelligence committee. we ll hear testimony from the nation s top intel chiefs including dni avril haines, cia director bill burns and fbi director chris wray. we can expect them to dive into a number of topics including new threats from china, questions about mishandling classified documents and concerns over domestic extremism. our team is monitoring this closely. meanwhile, in a different senate hearing, acting administrator of the faa is just moments away from testifying after weeks of disturbing headlines from the not so friendly skies, including a united passenger recently caught on camera attacking a flight attendant and threate
safety issue? norfolk southern is having more an increase in derailments lately seems to be related to their propensity to run longer trains, and that s related to their so-called precision railroading, precision scheduled railroading procedures to cut costs. it turns out that the ntsb has found that there has been an uptick in derailments on other railroads as well, and it seems that it s the other ones that have also practiced this these cost cutting measures. what questions do you have for senators if you were in that room, if you were able to ask alan shaw directly, what would you ask him? well, actually, first i would say i appreciated his plan of
The leadership of the new IAM Rail Division recently witnessed the skilled craftsmanship of IAM Local 1676 (District 19) members at the Norfolk Southern facility in Conway, PA.