hazardous materials into the states of just have a short, senator. this is coming all of that. let me jump in here because i only have about 30 seconds left so that the legislation that you re proposing how would it fix that? well with the same at least two people running. the trains have to disclose hazardous materials . it would up the find that these companies pay. it would pay it, too. would it would make safer the wheel bearings that cause most of these accidents. all of these things in it s got strong bipartisan support. it s going to get through the senate was 60 votes, 65, or 70 votes were calling on the house to do the same. but it be be good. if the railroad executives say yeah, we support this bill will make a couple little changes, but but they won t. they ve always gotten their way they ve always fought in congress with their campaign contributions and their political connections. and in the past, railroad safety has been compromised. they ve laid off a third of their work
anticipate that some additional policy affirming may be appropriate. we ve got a lot to discuss now with senator sherrod brown, democrat from ohio and chairman of the banking, housing and urban affairs committee, as well as a member of the senate financial committee finance committee, the perfect person to discuss this. thank you, senator for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. thanks, don perfect person to discuss this. you are. you re on all those committees. go ahead. we re going to find out in this interview because you told bloomberg last week that you hope the fed would pause rate hikes. so did the fed get this wrong? well i don t. i don t second guess the fed. it s an independent institution. all that, but what i have said to federal reserve members is they should be speaking out on some of the real cause of inflation we saw during the pandemic. we saw the pharmaceutical industry , the oil companies, transportation companies in the meatpacking industry raise rates raised