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Issue Position: Leadership ON METRO

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Transportation

At Norton's request, the Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee has held frequent hearings on Metro, including the first hearing on the June 2009 Metro collision that tragically claimed nine lives, including seven District residents, and injured dozens of others. Based on this hearing, Norton wrote an amendment to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Reauthorization Act of 2010, which passed the House earlier this year, clarifying the NTSB's authority to offer interim safety recommendations, especially when it is clear that there is insufficient revenue for costly, permanent measures. Norton is also an original cosponsor of the National Metro Safety Act, which provides enforceable national safety standards for all subway systems for the first time.


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