firemarypeters

Mary Peters has until March 11 to get on the right side of the law.

That’s the day the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on her illegal pilot program to open the border to Mexican trucks.

But even before Mary Peters has to face that committee, she’ll be dressed down by another one. Thursday she testifies before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on transportation. It will probably not go well for her.

How she must dread hearing those words — “You are in violation of the law” — from some of the most powerful people in the world.

Last week, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., told her exactly that. He also said that by March 11 she should rethink her decision to ignore the law that stopped the program that opened the border to unsafe Mexican trucks.

“The issue is safety,” he said. If Mexican safety standards and American safety standards were the same, Dorgan said, “You wouldn’t hear a peep out of me.”

He wasn’t the only one to tell her she’s breaking the law. During a recent House of Representatives committee hearing, three members of Congress told her she broke the law.

Make sure she hears those words again. Write, call or email the members of the Senate subcommittee on appropriations and urge them to tell her that she is breaking the law.

Here’s a link to the committee members:

http://appropriations.senate.gov/transportation.cfm