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Restaurant Trade Group Denounces Senate-Passed Plan to Place Alcohol Detectors in All Cars

ABI Urges Congress to Reject Highway Bill Provisions Designed to End Social Drinking in America
 March 19, 2012
 

House Transportation Bill Eliminates States’ Authority on Interlock Use and Will Cost Over $432 mill

American Beverage Institute Says Congressional Interlock Mandate is the First Step Toward Getting In
 January 31, 2012
WASHINGTON – Today the American Beverage Institute (ABI), which represents over eight thousand of America’s favorite family restaurants, denounced the House Transportation Reauthorization Bill which would require that all 50 states mandate ignition interlocks – in-car breathalyzers – as punishment for low-BAC (blood alcohol concentration) first-time DUI offenders. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., Chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a press conference about this bill today at 3:00pm.

Restaurant Group Urges Florida to Reject Costly Interlock Expansion

ABI Says Mandate is the First Step in Campaign to Put Interlocks in All CarsABI Says Mandate is t
 January 31, 2012
 

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In the News


Drunk-Driving Interlock Sales May Jump Fivefold

Bloomberg
February 16, 2012
By Angela Greiling Keane

Highway bill faces rocky road to passage

The Business Journals
February 13, 2012
 

Drunk drivers: Congress gets behind breath-test ignition devices

The Los Angeles Times
January 31, 2012
 

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Letters to the Editor & Op-Eds


The uncompromising campaign to end social drinking — one law at a time

The Tampa Tribune
February 4, 2012
 

Big brother in the backseat

By: Sarah Longwell
 The Hill
August 31, 2010
It's classic bait and switch. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) claims that his ROADS SAFE Act—which authorizes a $60 million taxpayer investment in a government program to further develop sophisticated in-vehicle technology that would keep a car from starting if the driver’s Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) level was above a pre-set limit—is all about stopping drunk drivers. This sounds like an excellent idea. After all, who doesn’t want to get dangerous drunk drivers off the road? That’s the bait. Here’s the switch: This taxpayer-funded federal program, known as DADSS (Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety), is actually developing alcohol detection technology to come as standard equipment in all cars.

Give judges discretion in drunk-driving cases

Washington Post
April 8, 2010
The Post’s devotion to mandatory minimum sentences in DUI cases is puzzling [“Coddling drunk drivers,” editorial, March 30], considering that a week earlier its editorial board argued against mandatory minimums for crack cocaine possession, praising a new bill for giving “judges a greater degree of discretion” in sentencing low-level drug offenders [“Fairness in sentencing,” editorial, March 23].

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