Sen. JD Vance Urges GOP to Support Railway Safety Bill: ‘Be the Party of the Working People’

U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance speaks with prospective voters on the campaign trail in Troy, Ohio, on April 11, 2022. Gaelen Morse/Getty Images

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) appealed to his Republican colleagues on March 9 to support the Railway Safety Act following the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern Railways train in East Palestine, Ohio, and the subsequent chemical spill.

At a Thursday hearing of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Vance acknowledged that there had been some reluctance among members of his own party to support the bipartisan bill.