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U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving Ohio Newsletter for Thursday March 16, 2023 ( 2 items )  

$2 Million Grant Announced for UTRGV's Railway Safety Consortium 'Will Save Lives,' Rep. Monica De La Cruz Says
EDINBURG, Texas, March 16 -- Rep. Monica de la Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following news release: A $2 million grant to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's University Transportation Center for Railway Safety consortium could make the rails safer. Rep. Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) applauded the grant award on Thursday, March 16. UTRGV's Railway Safety consortium includes South Texas College, Texas A&M University, the University of California Riverside, the University of Nebraska Lincoln, an  more

SENATOR VANCE: CONGRESS MUST PASS THE RAILWAY SAFETY ACT TO PROTECT FIRST RESPONDERS AND KEEP COMMUNITIES SAFE
WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Senator JD Vance (R-OH) repeated his calls for Congress to pass the Railway Safety Act, a commonsense and bipartisan piece of legislation sponsored by Republican Senators Vance, Hawley, and Rubio, and Democratic Senators Brown, Casey, and Fetterman. "Two big things we have to do better on rail safety: first of all, when you have firefighters going in to fight a toxic fire caused by a train derailment, they've g  more