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A VICTORY! US Senate Pulls Plug on Open Borders for Mexican Trucks!
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by merrie | September 12, 2007 at 03:38 am
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Senate votes to kill Mexican truck demo
Bush 'Open Borders' agenda dealt serious bipartisan blow
September 11, 2007The U.S. Senate has dealt a likely death blow to the Bush administration plans to give Mexican long-haul trucking rigs free access to United States roads and highways.
A bipartisan majority voted 74-24 tonight to pass an amendment offered by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., to remove funding from the Fiscal Year 2008 Department of Transportation appropriations bill for the Department of Transportation Mexican trucking demonstration project.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., joined Dorgan as a co-sponsor of his amendment.
"Tonight, commerce – for a change – did not trump safety," Dorgan said in a news release issued after the vote.
"Tonight's vote is a vote for safety," Dorgan said. "It also represents a turning of the tide on the senseless, headlong rush this country has been engaged in for some time, to dismantle safety standards and a quality of life it took generations to achieve"
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at 04:27 on September 12th, 2007
merrie, good stuff, and fast, too. (Note: check your next-to-last paragraph, it has a list of topics that may have been picked up during highlight process.)
at 04:46 on September 12th, 2007
merrie, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Damm merrie I'll have a Hard time digging some footage for this :) But I'll give it a go :)
I really dont see the point in trying to seal the Mexican border. Its just to hard.