WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives Oversight Committee is probing the Department of Transportation’s response to a series of rail and aviation safety issues.
The committee’s Republicans sent a letter yesterday to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg regarding train derailments and near-misses involving airlines. The letter asks DOT to provide documents related to “efforts to investigate and remediate these issues to protect the safety of all Americans.”
Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer said a number of unresolved safety recommendations made by the department’s inspector general “have eroded the public’s confidence in air and rail safety and necessitates thorough investigation.”
Rail safety has been in the spotlight since the Feb. 3 toxic derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio. The industry has come under scrutiny due to subsequent derailments, but the Rail Safety Act proposed in the Senate remains stuck in committee.
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