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DEBATE * USA - House to Vote on Mexican Trucks’ Limited and Controlled Access to U.S. Roadways
Washington,DC,USA-Public CQ, by Kathleen Hunter -15 May 2007: -- The House will vote Tuesday on a bill that would set additional conditions on a Bush administration plan to allow long-haul Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways... The bill (HR 1773) would limit the length of the program and block its implementation until U.S. truckers have comparable access to Mexico... When the Transportation and Infrastructure panel approved the bill May 2, Chairman James L. Oberstar, D-Minn., said the 66-0 vote sent a “very strong message” to the Bush administration that lawmakers have serious concerns about plans to open the border...* USA - Pilot program allows trucks from Mexico free travel through U.S.
Charleston,WV,USA -The Charleston Daily Mail, by Jake Stump -May 14, 2007: -- Some of West Virginia's representatives in Congress don't want Mexican trucking companies hauling freight deep into the Mountain State, or other parts of the country for that matter... Starting in July, a one-year pilot program backed by the Bush administration would allow trucks from 100 Mexican firms to drive anywhere in the United States... Congressman Alan Mollohan, D-W.Va., said he hopes the plan comes to a dead end... Mollohan, along with Congressman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., has cosponsored a House bill that puts limits on the program... "This bill will put the brakes on an influx of poorly maintained and dangerous Mexican trucks onto U.S. highways," Mollohan said...
* COMMENTS: by ClipMarks
USA -5 May 2007: -- ... He said the highways would meld the economies of the United States, Canada and Mexico into one based on the labor rate in China, which would be able to ship goods to western Mexico ports and haul them by trucks throughout North America... The losers will be West Coast shipyard workers, American truckers and trucking companies and others who handle consumer goods in the U.S., as well as even Mexican manufacturers who would not be able to compete with Chinese labor rates, critics said... (See image: One superhighway concept)
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