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Nomination to the Amtrak Board of Directors, the U.S S. HRG. 115–581 NOMINATION TO THE AMTRAK BOARD OF DIRECTORS, THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, THE FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, AND THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 31, 2017 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ( Available online: http://www.govinfo.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 36–042 PDF WASHINGTON : 2019 VerDate Nov 24 2008 11:23 Apr 29, 2019 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 S:\GPO\DOCS\36042.TXT JACKIE SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JOHN THUNE, South Dakota, Chairman ROGER F. WICKER, Mississippi BILL NELSON, Florida, Ranking ROY BLUNT, Missouri MARIA CANTWELL, Washington TED CRUZ, Texas AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota DEB FISCHER, Nebraska RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, Connecticut JERRY MORAN, Kansas BRIAN SCHATZ, Hawaii DAN SULLIVAN, Alaska EDWARD MARKEY, Massachusetts DEAN HELLER, Nevada CORY BOOKER, New Jersey JAMES INHOFE, Oklahoma TOM UDALL, New Mexico MIKE LEE, Utah GARY PETERS, Michigan RON JOHNSON, Wisconsin TAMMY BALDWIN, Wisconsin SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West Virginia TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois CORY GARDNER, Colorado MAGGIE HASSAN, New Hampshire TODD YOUNG, Indiana CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO, Nevada NICK ROSSI, Staff Director ADRIAN ARNAKIS, Deputy Staff Director JASON VAN BEEK, General Counsel KIM LIPSKY, Democratic Staff Director CHRIS DAY, Democratic Deputy Staff Director RENAE BLACK, Senior Counsel (II) VerDate Nov 24 2008 11:23 Apr 29, 2019 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\GPO\DOCS\36042.TXT JACKIE C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on October 31, 2017 .......................................................................... 1 Statement of Senator Blunt .................................................................................... 1 Letter dated October 11, 2017 to Chairman John Thune from Clifford Winston, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute .............................................. 75 Letter dated October 12, 2017 to Chairman John Thune and Ranking Member Bill Nelson from Erica L. Groshen, Visiting Senior Scholar, Cornell University—Industrial and Labor Relations School ..................... 76 Statement of Senator Booker .................................................................................. 2 Statement of Senator Nelson .................................................................................. 3 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 4 Statement of Senator Klobuchar ............................................................................ 73 Statement of Senator Inhofe ................................................................................... 76 Statement of Senator Schatz .................................................................................. 78 Statement of Senator Capito .................................................................................. 79 Statement of Senator Duckworth ........................................................................... 81 Letter dated October 25, 2017 to Bruce Landsberg, Nominee as Board Member, National Transportation Safety Board from Senators Charles E. Schumer, Richard Blumenthal, Cory A. Booker, Tammy Duckworth, Margaret Wood Hassan and Kirsten Gillibrand ........................................ 83 Letter dated October 30, 2017 to Hon. Tammy Duckworth from Bruce Landsberg ...................................................................................................... 85 Article dated June 19, 2009 entitled, ‘‘Starting a trade war with ‘‘Buy America’’ by Diana Furchtgott-Roth ............................................................ 86 Article dated October 25, 2017 from Bloomberg Business Week entitled, ‘‘Under Trump Made in America is Losing Out to Russian Steel’’ ........... 87 Letter dated October 30, 2017 to Hon. John Thune and Hon. Bill Nelson from Linda A. Lipsen, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for Justice ...................................................................................................... 90 Statement of Senator Cruz ..................................................................................... 91 Statement of Senator Blumenthal .......................................................................... 92 Statement of Senator Cortez Masto ....................................................................... 94 Statement of Senator Thune ................................................................................... 98 Statement of Senator Markey ................................................................................. 100 Statement of Senator Baldwin ................................................................................ 102 Statement of Senator Peters ................................................................................... 103 Statement of Senator Hassan ................................................................................. 108 Statement of opposition dated October 27, 2017 by Emily Martin, General Counsel and Vice President for Workplace Justice, National Women’s Law Center .................................................................................................... 109 WITNESSES Hon. Johnny Isakson, U.S. Senator from Georgia ................................................ 1 Hon. Leon (Lynn) A. Westmoreland, Nominee to be a Director, Amtrak ........... 4 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 5 Biographical information ................................................................................. 6 Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, U.S. Department of Transportation ............................................... 11 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 12 Biographical information ................................................................................. 13 Raymond P. Martinez, Nominee for Administrator of the Federal Motor Car- rier Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation ..................... 55 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 57 Biographical information ................................................................................. 58 (III) VerDate Nov 24 2008 11:23 Apr 29, 2019 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\GPO\DOCS\36042.TXT JACKIE IV Page Bruce S. Landsberg, Nominee to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board ......................................................................................................... 65 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 66 Biographical information ................................................................................. 66 APPENDIX Letter dated September 29, 2017 in support of Raymond Martinez to Hon. Jon Thune and Hon. Bill Nelson from Chris Spear, President and CEO, American Trucking Associations ......................................................................... 115 Letter dated November 2, 2017 in support of Diana Furtchgott-Roth to Chair- man John Thune from Deborah Lucas, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance and Director, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy ................... 115 Letter dated November 3, 2017 in support of Diana Furtchgott-Roth to Chair- man John Thune and Ranking Member Bill Nelson from Mark J. Perry, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Finance, University of Michigan-Flint ..... 116 Letter dated November 4, 2017 in support of Diana Furtchgott-Roth to Chair- man John Thune from Neil Gilbert, Chernin Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley ...................................................................... 117 Letter dated November 6, 2017 in support of Diana Furtchgott-Roth to Chair- man John Thune and Ranking Member Bill Nelson from Douglas J. Besharo, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland .............. 117 Letter dated November 7, 2017 in support of Diana Furtchgott-Roth to Chair- man John Thune and Ranking Member Bill Nelson from Robert I. Lerman, Institute Fellow, Urban Institute; and Emeritus Professor of Economics, American University ............................................................................................ 118 Response to written questions submitted to Hon. Leon (Lynn) A. Westmore- land by: Hon. Roger F. Wicker ....................................................................................... 118 Hon. Bill Nelson ............................................................................................... 119 Hon. Maria Cantwell ........................................................................................ 119 Hon. Richard Blumenthal ................................................................................ 120 Hon. Edward Markey and Hon. Catherine Cortez Masto ............................. 122 Hon. Cory Booker ............................................................................................. 122 Hon. Maggie Hassan ........................................................................................ 123 Hon. Catherine Cortez
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