benish, my time will run out. mr. benish: one of the things in my testimony was the stop at, -- the stop act. illegal passing laws. chair norton: that is the federal government that can do that? mr. benish: yes. the statistics, it today we figure that there are at least 80,000 illegal passings. chair norton: i am just trying to get the priorities. mrs. ferro: in support of chief fulton's comment regarding oversight of drivers, research and tools to ensure that states and companies have timely access to driver conviction suspension cancellation data. chair norton: thank you. secretary condron? sec. condron: one thing that we don't want to look for is, there is a shortage of bus drivers generally across this country, and legislation that would diminish the pool of drivers would be a detrimental issue when trying to find who is taking the children to school. we agree that there should be a ization. the bidding process needs to be adjusted where all schools can look at the safety aspects as opposed to accepting the lowest

benish. mr. benish: that is something which with the stop act that we had proposed in my opening statement about putting more education. i recently had this discussion with one of my three teenagers two months ago about stopping in and around the school bus. knowing that i own a school bus company and i am a driver, it was interesting to hear the perspectives of my teenagers, what they did know and did not know about stopping. they are brand-new drivers, and it is just scary. rep. stauber: yeah, i think we have to allow our states to regulationstrict around stopping for a school bus. by the way, i cosponsor of the am a act. for me, one driver driving around a school bus is too much, one in this entire country. because the safety of our kids is paramount. one of the things i wanted to talk about, you talk about the restraints and what have you. do you feel comfortable saying that the restraints in a fire or water emergency for young kids, , especially in rural areas where you are not going to get

john benish. >> thank you madam chair. johnleased to introduce benish, the president of the national transportation association and a resident of the great state of illinois. mr. benish, thank you for testifying today. and thank you for the commendable work you and the other bus operators do in keeping our kids safe. kidsverwhelming number of that travel safely back and forth to our schools every day in school buses ought to also be commended. to addresswe ought the issues and transportation safety regarding school buses and other modes of transportation. theret's not forget that is an overwhelming amount of students, the overwhelming goority, that arrive safely, home safely, and do it again the next day, until they graduate high school like my kids did this year. so no more school buses for me for a while. but thanks for your service and things for being here today. thank you mr. davis. i'm going to run down the names of the witnesses and then call on them. where pleased to welcome the honorable andrew mclean house chairm

benish? >> dangerous neighborhoods, yes. they started to especially in the city of chicago, they have certain areas they have chaperones or people in the neighborhood to help with that. getting back to the original question and suggestions, what i heard from state of california, a driver has to physically walk off the bus with the student, with a sign, walk them to the side of the street in that instance, and i guess over the past 30, 40 years has been very successful. they've had a really good low frequency of accidents with that. >> and they don't have a helper on the bus to get off and do it? >> it is actually the driver according to what i heard. >> wow. thank you, i yield back my time. >> thank you very much, miss miller. mr. westerman. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you to witnesses for your testimony today. i live in a large rural district back in arkansas where bus transportation is a big issue. i had the opportunity to serve on a school board, was the first elected office i held. in the state legislature we dealt

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