{"id":33713,"date":"2016-07-15T15:46:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=33713"},"modified":"2016-07-15T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:46:40","slug":"u-s-senator-heitkamp-testifies-behalf-two-person-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/u-s-senator-heitkamp-testifies-behalf-two-person-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senator Heitkamp testifies on behalf of two-person crew","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) testified in today in hearings before the FRA, in support of a two-person crew rule for all freight trains.\u00a0Seated directly behind the Senator is John Risch, SMART TD Legislative Director. Risch, SMART TD Member Mike Rankin, and TTD President Ed Wytkind also provided testimony in favor of the rule.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) testified in today in hearings before the FRA, in support of a two-person crew rule for all freight trains.\u00a0Seated directly behind the Senator is John Risch, SMART TD Legislative Director. Risch, SMART TD Member Mike Rankin, and TTD President Ed Wytkind also provided testimony in favor of the rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":33727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[175,3343,278,2035],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n