1.0 link 85368 <![CDATA[Mary Peters: Lawbreaker]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/mary-peters-lawbreaker_b_85368.html Here's yet another reason Americans should be furious at the Bush administration: spending taxpayer dollars without constitutional authority.

Late last year, lawmakers passed the omnibus budget. President Bush signed it into law on Dec. 26. The law prohibited spending on a Transportation Department pilot program to open the borders to trucks from Mexico.

The cross-border trucking program is a bad idea that my union fought for years. We believe trucks from Mexico are dangerous, and Congress overwhelmingly agrees with us....

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