By Jack Crowe, Political Reporter, The Daily Caller; February 7, 2018
A senior Department of Transportation official derided Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Wednesday for his refusal to confirm the nation’s top railroad safety regulator and suggested the partisan obstruction is placing rail passengers at risk.
Ronald Batory, a 40-year railroad industry veteran, was unanimously approved to lead the Federal Railway Administration by the Senate Commerce Committee in August; but Schumer has since blocked his confirmation twice, in an admitted effort to secure federal funding to revamp a a rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey.
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