[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 24955]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          VOTE DOWN H.R. 3036

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, here is a picture that I used earlier today of 
a truck that killed people in a car. Here is another major truck 
accident.
  Today in the House we may very well bring up H.R. 3036, which rolls 
back truck safety.
  In 1998, there were 5,374 deaths with regard to trucks. In 1997, 
there were 5,398 deaths with regard to trucks.
  It is like a major airplane crash taking place every two weeks. If 
that happened, the Congress would be up in arms.
  Why would the Congress now be rolling back what the Congress did with 
regard to truck safety? H.R. 3036 takes a step backward.
  If we do this, every time we pick up the newspaper and see that 
somebody is being killed in a truck accident, we are going to feel very 
bad.
  I hope that the Congress votes this down if H.R. 3036 comes up.




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