mr. orseno that he can't run them? these are the challenges that many many lawyers right now are trying to resolve. we don't have the answer to that quite yet. >> thank you. my time has expired. >> thank you, mr. hardy. ms. esty. >> thank you for mr. for waiting so long. i want to thank both of you for holding today's hearing. this subcommittee's work is extremely important to the thousands of folks in my district connecticut who ride these rails every day and businesses who rely on the freight service as well. i hear from a lot of those commuters that they are very concerned about rail safety, as you can imagine with the last two years. we've been talking about ever since the fatal collision in 1969 we've been talking about positive train control. as you can sense from today's hearing there's increasing impatience and concern about how long that's taking. now, i think we really need to get town to brass tacks of what are the carrots and sticks? what are the incentives at this time recognizing the difficulty with spect