<p>Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) used a congressional hearing on Wednesday to air criticisms of Transportation Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-buttigieg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Buttigieg</a>&#8216;s response to the Norfolk Southern train derailment disaster in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/east-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">East Palestine</a>, Ohio, early last month.</p>
<p>The Texas Republican argued how a &#8220;delayed and disjointed response by the Biden administration&#8221; has not allayed the concerns of local residents terrified by the health and environmental threats posed by the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/air-quality-following-controlled-burn-at-ohio-derailment-site-basically-what-it-was-before-train-crash-governor-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">so-called controlled burn</a> of toxic chemicals that spilled out of tanker cars.</p>
<p>&#8220;It took Secretary Buttigieg 10 days to even acknowledge the derailment,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;After he was called out, he did a 180 and tried to sell a slew of big government regulatory proposals, desperate to disguise the failure of the administration to act sooner.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">It took 10 days for Pete Buttigieg to even acknowledge the East Palestine derailment.</p>
<p>And when he finally said something, he only tried to distract from his own failures and push regulations which have little to no connection to the East Palestine derailment. <a href="https://t.co/1YtTGJtW0T">pic.twitter.com/1YtTGJtW0T</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1638566212102770691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Blunders followed, according to Cruz, who cited the secretary&#8217;s mention of a particular withdrawn brake rule as an example of why the Transportation Department <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/02/23/ntsb-chair-brake-rule-buttigieg-blamed-trump-for-repealing-would-not-have-prevented-east-palestine-derailment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced &#8220;constraints.&#8221;</a> Illustrating the problem with that comment, Cruz pointed out, was that the Biden administration&#8217;s own chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Homendy, had <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferHomendy/status/1626379361027858432?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to then go and explain how it was &#8220;FALSE&#8221;</a> to say it would have prevented the East Palestine derailment.</p>
<p>&#8220;Undeterred, Secretary Buttigieg then released a laundry list of regulatory proposals, many of which had little to no connection to the East Palestine derailment,&#8221; Cruz added.</p>
<p>&#8220;In an effort to further distract from his own failed response, Secretary Buttigieg has suggested that President Trump was responsible for the derailment in East Palestine,&#8221; the senator said.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I know that&#8217;s a frequent playbook of this administration, blaming every problem on President Trump, but not even The Washington Post fact-checker who usually goes out of his way to back Democrat claims, bought this claim,&#8221; Cruz continued before <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/so-far-trumps-rollback-regulations-cant-be-blamed-ohio-train-wreck/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing a passage</a> from the publication&#8217;s analysis.</p>
<p>The remarks were made during a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation <a href="https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2023/3/executive-session" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focused on improving rail safety</a> following the East Palestine incident. Cruz is the ranking member of the panel.</p>
<p>Buttigieg has called not speaking out sooner about the train derailment a &#8220;lesson learned&#8221; for himself. &#8220;I was focused on just making sure that our folks on the ground were all set, but could have spoken sooner about how strongly I felt about this incident,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-train-derailment-pete-buttigieg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he told CBS News</a>.</p>
<p>The secretary travelled the site in late February, but only after former President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2023/02/23/buttigieg-admits-regret-at-derailment-site-00084178" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paid a visit a day earlier</a>.</p>
<p>At the conclusion of his opening remarks on Wednesday, Cruz lauded two of the witnesses, Sens. J.D. Vance and Sherrod Brown, a Republican and Democrat from Ohio, respectively, for their efforts to bring attention to helping people affected by the derailment.</p>
<p>&#8220;I look forward to continuing to work closely with both of you and with the chairwoman on a bipartisan, serious rail safety package,&#8221; Cruz concluded.</p>

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