Bill Bennett: “I would not, and I say to the Senator from Texas that I am familiar with the American legislation to which he refers…”

“I would not, and I say to the Senator from Texas that I am familiar with the American legislation to which he refers because I have had, as I suppose the Senator from Texas has had, considerable complaints from my constituents about the regulations proposed under that bill and have contacted the administration, both the previous one and the present one, to say: Don't implement all aspects of this bill until you look at the specifics of these regulations; some of the things you are asking for in this bill would, in my opinion, and in the opinion of the constituents who have contacted me, make the American highways less safe than they are now. To say we must wait until that is done before we allow Mexican trucks in, in my view, would not only be a violation of NAFTA, it would be a violation of common sense because we are not implementing that for our own trucks on the grounds that it would not be good, safe procedure for our own trucks.”