<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px"><FONT face=""><B> Washington D.C.: Motorcycle-only checkpoints challenged. </B>On March 3, </FONT><A href="http://capwiz.com/amacycle/utr/1/OHREPCMKCV/IMAWPCMKQR/6595673036" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT face="">Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.)</FONT></A><FONT face=""><B> </B>introduced </FONT><A href="http://capwiz.com/amacycle/utr/1/OHREPCMKCV/CDNNPCMKQS/6595673036" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT face="">H.R. 904</FONT></A><FONT face="">. The legislation, with original co-sponsors </FONT><A href="http://capwiz.com/amacycle/utr/1/OHREPCMKCV/BSWJPCMKQT/6595673036" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT face="">Reps. Tom Petri (R-Wis.)</FONT></A><FONT face=""> and </FONT><A
href="http://capwiz.com/amacycle/utr/1/OHREPCMKCV/LMWJPCMKQU/6595673036" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT face="">Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)</FONT></A><FONT face="">, would prohibit the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) "from providing grants or any funds to a state, county, town, or township, Indian tribe, municipal or other local government to be used for any program to check helmet usage or create checkpoints for a motorcycle driver or passenger."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px"><FONT face=""> The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which is part of the DOT, recently gave Georgia a $70,000 grant to conduct one or more roadside motorcycle-only checkpoints. New York State has operated a similar program using state funds. The AMA has been tracking this disturbing development of motorcycle-only checkpoints since it first appeared in New York several years ago.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 15px"><I><FONT face=""> Source: </FONT><A href="http://capwiz.com/amacycle/utr/1/OHREPCMKCV/JWTRPCMKQV/6595673036" rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT face="">http://capwiz.com/amacycle/issues/alert/?alertid=33070516</FONT></A><FONT face="">. </FONT></I></SPAN></DIV><BR><BR>
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