Analysis: Mexican truckers would be a boon to Texas business, but unions say...
Texas on the Potomac regularly shares national political content from the Texas Tribune. Today, we offer you a piece by Trib staffer Julian Aguilar. A proposal by the Obama administration that would...
View ArticleRep. Henry Cuellar hails US-Mexico deal on trucks
Congressional photo Rep. Henry Cuellar A South Texas Democrat is welcoming a U.S.-Mexico deal on the touchy issue of long distance Mexican trucks delivering goods deep inside the United States. Rep....
View ArticleFinal Mexican trucking deal may be ‘days’ away, U.S. Trade Representative Ron...
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said today that the final agreement to end a two-year-old trucking dispute with Mexico “should be weeks, if not days” away. AFP photo U.S. Trade Representative Ron...
View ArticleTexas lawmakers working to connect pieces of NAFTA superhighway in Texas
Piecing together the so-called NAFTA superhighway stretching 1,800 miles from Mexico to Canada will get a boost if the House adopts legislation submitted by Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi....
View ArticlePerry Watch: It’s official — Rick Perry is the presidential candidate of the...
Rick Perry can now be officially taken seriously as a presidential candidate. The official blog monitoring the alleged "Bilderberg Conspiracy" to destroy American sovereignty and create a one world...
View ArticleTwo Mexican trucking companies may soon get OK from feds to operate in U.S.
Two Mexican trucking companies are on track to receive U.S. operating authority by the end of the month. The Department of Transportation on Thursday notified the Free Trade Alliance San Antonio that...
View ArticleLooking back at Ross Perot’s presidential campaign, 20 years after he...
His focus on fiscal responsibility made the presidential debates more substantive, and resulted in President Clinton making fiscal responsibility a top priority for his administration. The result was...
View ArticleTexas is a big winner in the Senate’s bipartisan highway bill
While the House of Representatives was away from Washington, the Senate this week approved a two-year, $109 billion surface transportation bill. The bipartisan proposal was strongly pushed by Texas...
View ArticleNAFTA at 20: Good for everybody? Or bad for Texas and America?
Texas on the Potomac regularly publishes some of the best national political reporting from the Texas Tribune. Today, we are pleased to share this piece by the Trib’s Julián Aguilar. Two decades after...
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