Senator Moves to Block Mexican Trucks(Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan ND)

worldnetdaily.com ^ | September 10, 2007 | Jerome R. Corsi

[kellynla]

Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan plans to offer an amendment today that would block the controversial federal program allowing Mexican trucks to operate freely on roads across the U.S.

Barry Piatt, spokesman for the North Dakota senator, told WND the amendment to the Fiscal 2008 Department of Transportation appropriations bill essentially will say, "None of the funds made available under this Act may be used to establish or implement a cross-border motor carrier demonstration or pilot project or program to allow Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate beyond the commercial zones on the United States-Mexico border."

Piatt said the amendment could come up for a vote in the Senate tomorrow or Wednesday.

Dorgan has scheduled a 2:30 pm Eastern Time press conference in the Senate today to announce his decision to offer the amendment .

WND reported last week, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., charged the Bush administration with being "hell-bent on opening our borders, but has failed to require that Mexican drivers and trucks meet the same safety and security standards as U.S. drivers and trucks."

[kellynla]

ping

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t see any benefit whatsoever to surrendering our trucking industry to Mexico.

[wideawake]

And the Teamsters thank him.

[lesser_satan]

bump

[NapkinUser]

Even Clinton had the common sense not to allow this.

[cinives]

He’s a year late.

[Paperdoll]

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Wow! Did I read that last paragraph right? DeFazio condemns Bush’s open border policy, but refuses to back Duncan Hunter’s bill to impose upon Mexican transport vehicles the same rules and regulations which domestic transport vehicles must follow?

Double speak? Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum? What kind of brainwashing is this, pray tell?

[veracious]

Stop the trucking madness; better yet stop the whole assimilation of the US into sovereignty robbing treaties and organizations: NAFTA, WTO and others...

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

So you want to punish independent owner operators?

BS

[ConservativeofColor]

And the Teamsters thank him.

Considering anything from terrorists to biological or nuclear weapons could be in those trucks all Americans should thank him.

[Let's Roll]

Get ‘er done, Dorgan!

[wastedyears]

Some of ‘em get it.

[wideawake]

So you want to punish independent owner operators?

Who said that?

[VeniVidiVici]

Even Clinton had the common sense not to allow this.

Clinton signed NAFTA which authorized it.

[wideawake]

Considering anything from terrorists to biological or nuclear weapons could be in those trucks all Americans should thank him.

Nothing in the bill exempts them from inspection.

[Alberta's Child]

Clinton had the “common sense” to address this issue the same way he addressed most issues — he just deferred any action on them until after he left office.

[mad puppy]

I wonder if that truck that blew up in Mexico with all the dynamite on it has anything to do with this....hmmmm....

Bush has abandoned the people that put him in office. Immensely disappointed in his 2nd term.

[ConservativeofColor]

Nothing in the bill exempts them from inspection.

And beleiving they will be is, I suppose, part and parcel of what it takes to think this is a good idea.