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Roger Wicker: “Reducing the speed limit to 30 miles an hour nationwide would save lives, no question about it, but we have taken the…”

On the recordNovember 13, 2017
Reducing the speed limit to 30 miles an hour nationwide would save lives, no question about it, but we have taken the position, as a society, that would just be too harmful to the economy.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker uses speed limits as an analogy for balancing safety and economic impact.

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