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POPSAnd the hits just keep on coming!
... for years by concerns that it would put highway safety and American jobs at risk. The truck hauling a large steel drilling structure on a flatbed trailer crossed the border at Laredo, Texas, nearly two decades after passage of NAFTA, which was supposed to improve cargo transportation between the two countries. At a ceremony in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, before the truck set off for a Dallas suburb, the owner of the Transportes Olympic trucking company told dignitaries of both countries that he considers his fleet's access to the U.S. interior like being invited to a friend's house. "We have to be extra orderly and very respectful," Fernando Paez told about 300 people. "We will demonstrate that we can operate safely and efficiently." Paez's company was first approved to operate in the U.S. interior under a 2007 pilot program that allowed a limited number of trucks before President Obama's administration canceled it in 2009. Mexico retaliated by ...
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POPSLITR: GOP Voter Suppression in High Gear in State After State as 'Tea Party' Shell Game Exposed " I don’t want everybody to vote ," Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the billionaire-funded Heritage Foundation and the Moral Majority, said while addressing a right-wing Christian audience in 1980. " ur leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populace goes down," he added after he denigrated those who seek "good government" through maximum, informed voter participation as people who suffer from the "goo goo syndrome."
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POPSEffort Begins to Guard Military Paychecks Before Debt Ceiling Deadline . . . in combat zones, would continue to be paid even if the government runs out of money or there is a lapse in federal funding. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Monday the government is borrowing money from government trust funds and delaying some payments to keep spending through Aug. 2. At that point, the government would go into default. One of the things that might not be covered is military salaries, Treasury officials have warned. Service members and their families already suffered through a threat to their pay in April, when a government shutdown was avoided at literally the last hour. After that, Hunter — a Marine veteran — said he doesn’t want military families to worry again while Congress and the White House try to negotiate an increase in the debt ceiling. “Each one of our military families deserves to know that paychecks won’t be withheld,” Hunter said in a statement. “My bill provides that certainty . . .
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