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Subcommittee will now come to order. I want to thank all the members and the witnesses for appearing before the subcommittee this morning. The chairman will now yield five minutes to migrate friend, mr. Mcnerney from california for five minutes. Good morning, mr. Chairman, i thank you for yielding me the five minutes and i thank the witnesses for coming this morning. Its an incredibly important issue that we needed to care a lot about and make good policy on. Were meeting today to discuss the state of Cyber Security in the grid and the continuing threats facing Americas Energy truer. We contin...

Test. Test. Tom udall. Todd young. Captioning performed by vitac thats a really good question. Im glad you asked it. When something does become mandatory, it must have a very consistent repeatable Test Procedure and what we find is when a technology is new, for instance, a certain kind of alert or blind spot detection, we learn a lot from the fact there are a little bit of a difference in different folks that are adopting it or different manufacturers who are designing different systems. Thats a time of learning and then if it seems appropriate to adopt it as a mandatory standard, we can then ...

I call this hearing to order. Todays hearing is about the need for this committee to draft and to pass a bipartisan Highway Infrastructure bill. Both Ranking Member carpers staff and my staff have been working on drafting this legislation along with all of the members of this committee. We appreciate all the input we received from our home states, from our fellow members and from transportation stakeholders. Its our shared goal to advance a bill out of the committee this summer. That means the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will be first out of the gate to pass a Highway Infrast...

And ceo of the association of american railroads. Jim cb, commissioner of the southwest chief and Front Range Passenger Rail commission, and jennifer homendy, Member National Transportation Safety board. I continue to be a strong supporter of our real industry both freight and passenger. Rail service is safe and efficient. It also reduces congestion on our highways and spurs economic growth. In mississippi, for example, we have 26 Freight Railroads, 2,400 miles of track, five of the seven class ones, two longdistance amtrak routes, 10 stations, and more than 100,000 annual riders. Rail is vita...

Next steps for Passenger Rail. Im glad to convene this hearing with my friend and colleague Ranking Member cantwell. I welcome or panel of witnesses and thank them for hearing. We will hear from richard anderson, president and ceo of amtrak. Ian jefferies, president and ceo of the association of american railroads. Jim sube, commissioner of the southwest chief and Front Range Passenger Rail commission. And jennifer hamade, board member, National Transportation safety board. I continue to be a strong support of our rail industry, freight and passenger. Rail service is safe and efficient and als...