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Title: Battle with feds brewing over 'superhighway', Texas legislators overwhelmingly pass bill blocking construction
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URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55534
Published: May 4, 2007
Author: Jerome Corsi
Post Date: 2007-05-04 11:04:57 by christine
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Views: 124
Comments: 5
A battle between Texas and the Bush administration is brewing over construction of the Trans-Texas Corridor after the state legislature passed a two-year moratorium. The Texas House passed HB1892 Wednesday after the Senate last week approved an earlier version of the moratorium on a project some critics see as part of a "NAFTA superhighway" system and ties with Canada and Mexico that threaten U.S. sovereignty. The bill has been sent to Gov. Rick Perry for signature by May 14, but it passed with veto-proof margins of 27-4 in the Senate and 139-1 in the House. The Bush administration appears determined to fight the moratorium. WND reported last week FHWA Chief Counsel James D. Ray wrote a four-page letter to Michael Behrens, executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation, threatening the loss of federal highway funds if the legislature were to pass a two-year moratorium of the public-private partnership financed by Cintra, an investment consortium in Spain.
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#1. To: christine (#0)
Guess we can kiss that federal highway money goodbye for a couple of years. Oh well, we can always float a bond.
Paranoia is a survival trait in a Decidership.
I don't believe that BushCo can withhold highway funds without congress passing additional legislation for that purpose. As long as TX meets the same criteria as the other states (and I believe Montana lost the funds because they wouldn't adopt a national maximum speed limit) any such arbitrary denial would be a violation of the equal protection clause-unless the original federal law that authorized the interstate highway system essentially empowered the feds to build whatever, whereever whenever. I don't believe this is the case because state matching funds were required to build the interstate highway systems and this by necessity required the states' consent. In other words, if a state refused to pony up the matching funds in the first place, what could the feds have withheld to twist their arms? I think we'll see that this is just another case of a BushCo functionary assuming he/she had the power and later learning that such is not the case.
~nobody luvs mee everybody hates mee I think I'm going out to the garden and eat worms mommy!~
Um... Wow. I was wrong. The Texas Legislature got it right I guess. However... They'll build it anyway. Whether Texans want it or not.
Dying for old bastards, and their old money, isn't my idea of freedom.
No problem. Just threaten them back with the loss of federal tax monies. I mean, they take the money at gunpoint, then generously give some of it back provided you lick their boots JUST so... It's LONG past time to tell the feds to take a flying leap at a rolling donut.
Battle with feds brewing over 'superhighway', Texas legislators overwhelmingly pass bill blocking construction
#2. To: christine (#0)
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#4. To: christine (#0)
...threatening the loss of federal highway funds...
 | Gold and silver are real money, paper is but a promise. |
#5. To: Elliott Jackalope (#4)
If the Iraqis can resist when being invaded so can Texans. I don't care much for the taste of boot dust.
Just threaten them back with the loss of federal tax monies. I mean, they take the money at gunpoint, then generously give some of it back provided you lick their boots JUST so
2Pe 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption:
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