[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Pages 24491-24492]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           DRIVE SAFER SUNDAY

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Judiciary 
Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 718 and 
the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 718) designating November 30, 2008, 
     as ``Drive Safer Sunday.''

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, 
the preamble be agreed to, and the motion to reconsider be laid upon 
the table.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 718) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  The resolution, with its preamble, reads as follows:

                              S. Res. 718

       Whereas motor vehicle travel is the primary means of 
     transportation in the United States;

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       Whereas everyone driving on the roads and highways needs to 
     do so more safely to reduce deaths and injuries resulting 
     from motor vehicle accidents;
       Whereas, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety 
     Administration, wearing a seat belt saved 15,434 lives in 
     2004, 15,632 lives in 2005, and 15,383 lives in 2006;
       Whereas Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters has urged 
     all people of the United States to understand the life-saving 
     importance of wearing a seat belt and has encouraged 
     motorists to drive safely, not just during the holiday 
     season, but each time they get behind the wheel; and
       Whereas the Sunday after Thanksgiving is the busiest 
     highway traffic day of the year: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) encourages--
       (A) high schools, colleges, universities, administrators, 
     teachers, primary schools, and secondary schools to launch 
     campus-wide educational campaigns to urge students to drive 
     safely;
       (B) national trucking firms to alert truck drivers to focus 
     on driving safely on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and to 
     publicize the importance of the day using Citizen's Band 
     (``CB'') radios and truck stops across the United States;
       (C) clergy to remind members to travel safely en route to 
     religious services and gatherings;
       (D) law enforcement personnel to remind drivers and 
     passengers to drive safely on the Sunday after Thanksgiving; 
     and
       (E) all people of the United States to use the Sunday after 
     Thanksgiving as an opportunity to educate themselves about 
     highway safety; and
       (2) designates November 30, 2008, as ``Drive Safer 
     Sunday''.

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