{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-statement-end-year-push-pass-rail-safety-bill-growing-support-bring", "Deluzio Statement on End-of-Year Push to Pass Rail Safety Bill, Growing Support to Bring Bill to Vote on the House Floor", "2024-12-06", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "PA", "Christopher R. Deluzio", "D000530", "deluzio.house.gov", "deluzio", "https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) released a statement on his end-of-year push to pass bipartisan rail safety legislation through the House of Representatives. A bill he is co-leading, the Rail Safety Enhancement Act has been brought up as a discharge petition, which is a procedure to bring a bill up for an immediate vote in the House if it gathers enough supporting signatures.\n\nThe measure built off of Congressman Deluzio\u2019s Railway Safety Act introduced in the wake of the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine. In order to be brought up for a House vote through the discharge petition process it needs 218 signatures, an absolute majority of the chamber\u2019s members, to sign on.\n\nCongressman Deluzio released the following statement:\n\n\u201cSome powerful forces may want us to move on from the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine last year, but many of my constituents in Beaver County and our neighbors in Ohio have not.\n\n\u201cImagine if a train derailed and released a toxic fireball into the sky nearby your home and your family. Would you be okay with keeping weak safety rules that failed so miserably?\n\n\u201cMy constituents want and expect Congress to act to make freight rail safer for our communities.\n\n\u201cI refuse to let us be treated like collateral damage in the way of corporate profits. We know we cannot trust railroads to regulate themselves: that's why we need the Rail Safety Enhancement Act. Making freight rail safer isn\u2019t partisan: this a bill supported by Republicans and Democrats from all backgrounds and ideologies.\n\n\u201cIn fact, my rail safety bill is one of the only measures endorsed by both President-Elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.\n\n\u201cHowever, big railroads have been lobbying hard to kill these proposals. The fact is: they don\u2019t want to spend more on safety.\n\n\u201cBut I\u2019m not going to let this year end without a final showdown. Because the truth is that the House still has a shot to pass rail safety legislation.\n\n\u201cEvery Member of Congress who thinks that the safety of our communities matters more than corporate profits ought to sign their name on the dotted line of this petition and vote to pass this rail safety bill.\n\n\u201cWe have a chance to show my people in Western Pennsylvania and our Eastern Ohio neighbors that we haven\u2019t forgotten them. Let\u2019s not miss.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://deluzio.house.gov/media/press-releases/deluzio-statement-end-year-push-pass-rail-safety-bill-growing-support-bring"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3426071964204311, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}