Rep. Beth Van Duyne on Thursday introduced a bill that would tighten requirements for foreign nationals seeking commercial driver’s licenses in the U.S. and impose severe penalties, including the loss of federal highway funding, for states that fail to comply.
“We’ve been working on this bill, actually for a couple of months, but you just continue to see headline after headline of these people who are getting these licenses, who don’t speak English, they don’t even know the rules of the road, and yet they’re being given license to drive, basically a tank on our U.S. highways. And these tragedies just seem to be piling up,” the Texas Republican told Newsmax’s “Newsline” Thursday.
Van Duyne cited a March crash near Austin involving an Ethiopian driver who she said held a license despite not knowing U.S. traffic laws. The crash killed five people and injured 11 others.
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