Senate votes to block Mexican trucks test

[kurth]

Senate votes to block Mexican trucks test
Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:51PM EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to block funding for a Bush administration test program to let Mexican long-haul trucks operate in the United States under 1994's North American Free Trade Agreement.

One day after a fiery truck accident killed dozens in Mexico, the Senate approved an amendment to a transportation spending bill that would cut off funding for the test, which the administration authorized last week to run for one year.

The House of Representatives has passed a similar measure.

The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto the broad transportation bill because it would spend more money than President George W. Bush requested. It said the administration opposes any restrictions on the cross-border trucking program.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSWAO00012920070912

[Kagemusha]

1. I knew it!! Bush wasn't going to take sensible governing laying down.

He'll threaten up and down to veto this...