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Richard Blumenthal: “The Department of Transportation, as I'm telling the…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Hartford advocates push for hot car alert systems

Published | Video Starts at 05:53

And in the meantime, I have written to the Secretary of Transportation demanding that the regulations which were due five years ago, be promulgated. Now these regulations are way overdue in violation of the law. And The Department of Transportation, as I'm telling the Secretary, has an obligation to implement them right now even though they are years late. Better late than never. Require the car manufacturers to implement the most advanced technology that can literally save 35 kids a year by reminding parents to take the child out … (05:53–06:05)

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Asserts that the Department of Transportation is obligated to implement the overdue regulations.

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