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BY BEN MARQUIS
FEBRUARY 10, 2018 AT 2:11PM

In keeping with the left’s “resist for the sake of resistance” movement against everything President Donald Trump does, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has blocked or delayed dozens of Trump’s top executive branch post nominees.

Now, at least one official has suggested this tactic could be placing lives in danger.

That official is Deputy Secretary of Transportation Jeff Rosen, and according to The Daily Caller, he has taken exception to Schumer’s prolonged refusal to confirm the nomination of 40-year rail veteran Ronald Batory as the nation’s top railroad safety regulator and head of the Federal Railway Administration.

Rosen sent a letter to Schumer on Jan. 31 following the crash of an Amtrak train in Virginia that was carrying congressional Republicans to their annual retreat in West Virginia. The train had struck a garbage truck on the tracks, killing the driver and injuring some of the train passengers.

According to USA Today, that crash was but one of several high-profile Amtrak train crashes or derailments over the past few years, the most recent of which occurred Feb. 4 in South Carolina when an Amtrak train was accidentally shifted to a side rail and slammed into a parked CSX freight train, killing the conductor and engineer.

Other prominent accidents included the Dec. 18, 2017 derailment in DuPont, Washington, which killed three and injured dozens more, as well as two separate incidents in Philadelphia in 2015 and 2016 that killed a total of 10 people and injured hundreds more.

Unfortunately, statistics show that the number of fatalities in train accidents are on the rise, as is the rate of accidents per million miles traveled, a trend Rosen suggested could be slowed if not reversed if Schumer were to withdraw his objection to the appointed new leader and allow him to be confirmed.

“At that time, (Republican South Dakota) Sen. (John) Thune, who chairs the Commerce committee, said months have gone by and now we’re dealing with the aftermath of this tragedy, it’s time to confirm Ron Batory, and he asked for unanimous consent,” recalled Rosen, in reference to remarks in the Senate following the Washington state derailment, according to The Daily Caller.

“Senator Schumer stood up and just said ‘I object’ and then he walked away and didn’t elaborate,” Rosen continued. “So he didn’t say when he objected what the grounds were. It’s inexplicable that after those months and after the tragedy he was unwilling to put safety first, but he didn’t give the rationale.”

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Re: After a String of Amtrak Crashes, Top Official Points Finger at Schumer
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2018, 10:57:22 pm »
Needs to be shouted from the roof tops.

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Re: After a String of Amtrak Crashes, Top Official Points Finger at Schumer
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2018, 12:46:22 am »
                                HEY, Schumer.

No government in the 12,000 years of modern mankind history has led its people into anything but the history books with a simple lesson, don't let this happen to you.

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Re: After a String of Amtrak Crashes, Top Official Points Finger at Schumer
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2018, 01:48:24 am »
Neither the grade-crossing accident in Virginia with the garbage truck nor the South Carolina wreck of #91 had any blame that could be placed on Amtrak, other than their trains were unwilling participants.

Unfortunately, too many will see the story of an accident, see "Amtrak", and just assume "it was their fault". Even a lot of folks around here.

Schumer -- as much as I dislike the schmuck, he doesn't have all that much to do with it, either.