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Frank Lautenberg: “I wrote the law to raise the drinking age to 21. I subsequently wrote the .08 restriction for definition of driving…”

On the recordOctober 28, 2009
I wrote the law to raise the drinking age to 21. I subsequently wrote the .08 restriction for definition of driving under the influence. And we have saved 1,500 people a year.
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Frank Lautenberg
Democratic · New Jersey

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Lautenberg highlights the success of laws he authored to reduce drunk driving fatalities.

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