[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15450]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       CROSS-BORDER PILOT PROGRAM BY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

  (Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. BOYDA of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today dismayed by the 
Department of Transportation's decision to rush dangerous Mexican 
trucks onto American roads.
  In the last month, this House voted twice to impose severe restraints 
on any cross-border trucking program. Three weeks ago, we passed my 
Safe American Roads Act by an overwhelming, bipartisan 411-3 margin. 
The supplemental appropriations bill included similar language. It 
passed both Houses, and it was signed into law by the President of the 
United States.
  But although we have twice loudly and unambiguously rebuked the 
Department of Transportation, they are simply ignoring the American 
people. On Friday, they announced plans to launch a cross-border pilot 
program anyway, in clear violation of both Houses and the will of the 
American people.
  Their actions are deceptive, and they are intolerable. The people's 
House cannot be sidestepped through bureaucratic trickery. I urge the 
DOT to put the brakes on this profoundly undemocratic course of action. 
The safety of our highways is at stake.

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