(Source: Politico, October 28, 2015)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress on Wednesday quietly gave the railroad industry what it demanded: a three- to five-year delay in the deadline for installing the kind of safety technology that could have prevented last spring’s deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia.
The Senate approved the bill by voice vote Wednesday afternoon, meaning no lawmakers had to go on record as supporting the delay.
Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, read aloud from a statement by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who called the delay’s insertion into the highway bill as an “insult to the families who have lost loved ones.”
“Some of the railroads are dragging their feet,” Boxer said on the floor after the vote. “They have every excuse in the book.”
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