• The passage raises the issue of lack of accountability in powerful bureaucracies
  • The cause of the train wreck mentioned in the passage is hard to determine
  • Congress passed deregulation of safety standards around train companies in 2017
  • The train company's failure to upgrade brakes may have contributed to the train wreck
  • Money from the industry flooded Congress to get the law change
  • There is confusion about who is responsible for the train wreck and the decision to do the control burn

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