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Excerpt from Labor Implications of Railroad Sales: Hearing of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session on Examining All the Available Options, What They Mean and How We Might Meet Our Common Goals, Gathering the Information Necessary to Bu The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 4:00 p.m. in St. Mary's Parish Hall, St. Albans, Vt, Senator Jeffords presiding. Present: Senator Jeffords and Representative Bernard Sanders. Opening Statement of Senator Jeffords Senator Jeffords. Please take your seats. I expect we may have a long length of time. Please may I have quiet. This is an official hearing of the U.S. Senate, and therefore we will be utilizing the rules of the U.S. Senate in the proceedings. So, I would ask for your cooperation in that regard. This does mean some slightly different proceedings than you may have been used to. This hearing will be carried out with the witnesses testifying and I will ask them the questions. There will be no questions from the floor. Senator Leahy is not able to be here. He will have a statement which will be made part of the record. Also, Governor Dean is unable to be here; he will have a statement that will be made a part of the record. Congressman Sanders is with us. He will be testifying first, and although its not covered directly by the rules of the Senate, I would invite him to come to the table and also participate in the questioning. Each witness' testimony will be restricted to 5 minutes. We have lights here: green stays on for 4 minutes, yellow for 1 minute and then red shines, and then there is a gunshot after that. Laughter. But anyway, so we want to try to keep it in order because I want to leave as much time as possible for those who wish to participate in the proceedings by testifying at the end of the regular panels that we have. On the first panel we have Mayor Deslauriers and Congressman Sanders; we have the second panel with the members - lets see, let me read them off here, go through them. The second panel will be Henri Rush, the General Counsel for the Interstate Commerce Commission. This will be very important testimony, and I hope you listen carefully because I want to make sure what we do today is not only for my committee but for all people here to understand what the powers and the purposes are of the ICC, and what role they will and can take in participating in these proceedings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.