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The Michigan ..ai y - -Tihursday, September 21, 1995'- 7A

House votes 313-112 to
scrap national speed im 't

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Eleven
House Republicans, including Rep.
ernon Ehlers, bolted from their party
yesterday to vote against eliminating
fthe national speed limits and letting
states decide how fast people should
;drive.
The measure to drop the national
,speed limit of 55 mph on most roads
and 65 on rural interstates was approved
313-112.
Ehlers (R-Grand Rapids), was not
available for comment, said his press
secretary, Chris Barbee.
Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Flint), said the
speed limit was a "reasonable safety
restriction" and he voted to keep it "to
save lives." ,
Also voting against dropping the na-
tipnal speed limits were Reps. David
3onior (D-Mount Clemens); John
Conyers (D-Detroit); John Dingell (D-
Dearborn); and Sander Levin (D-Royal
Oak).
Those members of Congress voting
fofthelimit believed the decision should
'et with the states.
"Let the state of Michigan decide

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what the appropriate speed limits are,
rather than have one uniform speed
limit across the country. It should be
their decision, not Washington's," said
Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Holland), who
voted for dropping the speed limits.
The Senate version of the bill, ap-
proved in June, would eliminate the
current speed limit for automobiles but
would keep it on large trucks and buses.
The two bills now go to conference to
be resolved.
Congress passed the 55 mph law in
1973, threatening states that did not
comply with the loss of millions of
dollars for highway construction that
would instead be diverted to highway
safety. Fifteen years later, Congress
raised the speed limit to 65 mph outside
urban areas.
The government's highway safety
arm said that sinc'e the rural interstates
were allowed to increase the speed limit,
nationally on average those roads have
seen a 30 percent increase in fatalities
annually.
Interstates are the safest highways in
the country because they have medians

and are free of intersections or drive-
ways, stoplights and obstruction by trees.
About 43 percent of fatal crashes on
roads that are not interstates and have a
maximum speed limit of 55 mph are
speed-related, according to data pro-
vided by the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration.
About 1,000 Americans die every
month in speed-related crashes, NHTSA
said.
But in Michigan, only 25 percent of
all fatal crashes are speed-related -
below the national average of 30 per-
cent, NHTSA records show. That num-
berjumps to about 30 percent on Michi-
gan roads that are not interstates but
have a 55 mph maximum limit.
"We don't know what will happen (if
the limit is removed), although we are
extremely concerned and certain we
will see more deaths and injuries," said
Carol Stroebel, NHTSA's director of
intergovernmental affairs.
"We found that ... people go above
the speed limit no matter what it is," she
said. "There's an all-American belief
that you have a cushion."

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Accountants, analysts and other ex-
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right direction in ensuring individual
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The bill, written by the House Ways
and Means oversight subcommittee
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mittee. In turn, it will be folded into
massive tax- and spending-cut legisla-

tion going to the House floor next
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"It will have a big impact," Johnson
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to prevent the taxpayer from taking the
hit for bureaucratic failures and rigid
glitches in the law."
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Raising the current $100,000 ceil-
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been put on by mistake or when re-
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money to pay the taxes owed.

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