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Don Young: “I deeply respect my good friend that has offered this amendment, but I have a couple questions. One, I have had the…”

On the recordApril 1, 2004
I deeply respect my good friend that has offered this amendment, but I have a couple questions. One, I have had the privilege of visiting a private company; it has developed a truck stop process whereby the trucks do have the same thing my colleague wants. What I understand his amendment does is he wants to raise the weight of the truck 400 pounds of added equipment to the truck so they do not have to stop at a truck stop. Is that correct?
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Questioning an amendment related to truck weight regulations during a legislative debate.

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