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Hey maybe Reid just wanted them to put up a few of these types of billboards..
“A New Direction for America”
You can TRUST me!
Senate leader's billboard boosting flops
By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Power and money suffered a rare setback in the Senate on Thursday as Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., stopped the top Senate Democrat from inserting a favor for the billboard industry into a must-pass emergency funding bill.
Alexander raised a parliamentary point of order to force removal of the measure, which he and other opponents said would have effectively exempted certain billboards in 13 Southern states from regulation under the Highway Beautification Act.
The move was a defeat for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who championed the provision, and for the Outdoor Advertising Association. The industry group's members and their employees gave more than $167,000 to congressional candidates in the last election cycle and spent more than $800,000 lobbying Congress last year.
Reid wrote a letter to the committee that drafted the funding measure asking that the billboard provision be added. ,Alexander, a member of the panel, said he wasn't even aware that it had been added.
At issue was whether billboard owners could rebuild storm-damaged signs that would not be legal under regulations passed after the 1965 Highway Beautification Act. The law, passed at the urging of Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of then-president Lyndon Johnson, encourages states to ban billboards that are outsized, too close together or located in scenic areas. Older billboards that don't comply with the new regulations have been allowed to remain but cannot be rebuilt.
Full USAToday piece
“you can’t make this stuff up”
What a JOKE!
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“A New Direction for America”
You can TRUST me!
Senate leader's billboard boosting flops
By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Power and money suffered a rare setback in the Senate on Thursday as Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., stopped the top Senate Democrat from inserting a favor for the billboard industry into a must-pass emergency funding bill.
Alexander raised a parliamentary point of order to force removal of the measure, which he and other opponents said would have effectively exempted certain billboards in 13 Southern states from regulation under the Highway Beautification Act.
The move was a defeat for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who championed the provision, and for the Outdoor Advertising Association. The industry group's members and their employees gave more than $167,000 to congressional candidates in the last election cycle and spent more than $800,000 lobbying Congress last year.
Reid wrote a letter to the committee that drafted the funding measure asking that the billboard provision be added. ,Alexander, a member of the panel, said he wasn't even aware that it had been added.
At issue was whether billboard owners could rebuild storm-damaged signs that would not be legal under regulations passed after the 1965 Highway Beautification Act. The law, passed at the urging of Lady Bird Johnson, the wife of then-president Lyndon Johnson, encourages states to ban billboards that are outsized, too close together or located in scenic areas. Older billboards that don't comply with the new regulations have been allowed to remain but cannot be rebuilt.
Full USAToday piece
“you can’t make this stuff up”
What a JOKE!
.
