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Ron Johnson: “This was mandated to be completed by 2015, and a lot of…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson Questioning Witnesses at Commerce, Sci, Trans Hearing 6 10 15

Published | Video Starts at 03:15

And in most of the country, we understand that the railroads have the spectrum they need, so we don't think that that's an issue. But it doesn't seem particularly working well. This was mandated to be completed by 2015, and a lot of people aren't going to be able to do it. I mean, this is seven years in implementation. It doesn't seem that easy. Again, I'm still not getting an answer to the question, is there a better technology that'd be … (03:15–03:20)

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Asserts that the implementation of PTC was mandated to be completed by 2015, but many will not meet this deadline.

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