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	<description>Breaks Law: Opens Mexican Border to Unsafe Trucks</description>
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		<title>More lies from the lawbreaker</title>
		<link>http://firemarypeters.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/more-lies-from-the-lawbreaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The snow job that Mary Peters dumped on Denver today had to beat any blizzard the Mile-High City ever got in January. Mary Peters was at a meat packing plant that doesn&#8217;t do business with Mexico. She was complaining that closing the border to trucks from Mexico would hurt the economy. Your pants are on fire, hon. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=45&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Mary Peters, The Teamsters Wish You a Very Sound and Comfy National Sleep Awareness Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than 10 years, the Teamsters have said how unsafe it is for Mexican trucks to freely roam the United States. The union has made it clear that since NAFTA was passed there has been a system in place that is not broken. This refers to the fact that for the longest time any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=44&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The secretary and her legal counsel will not have the last word. Congress will have the last word.&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://firemarypeters.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/%e2%80%9cthe-secretary-and-her-legal-counsel-will-not-have-the-last-word-congress-will-have-the-last-word%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those were the words spoken by Sen. Mark Pryor to Mary Peters on Tuesday. She was also excoriated by Sen. Byron Dorgan. It did Teamster hearts good to hear him call her “arrogant” over and over. And to hear him say, &#8220;There will be consequences.&#8221; The March 11 Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Cross-Border Trucking was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=43&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swingline. Square D. Mr. Coffee. All packed up and moved to Mexico.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Peters wants you to believe that NAFTA is good for American workers. Of course she also wants you to believe she&#8217;s acting legally by keeping the border open to unsafe trucks. During a telephone news conference with reporters on Monday, Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa scoffed at Mary Peters&#8217; claim that closing the border would hurt American business. Before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=42&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Mary Peters having second thoughts about opening the border?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a Senate hearing on Thursday Mary Peters said she will close the border to trucks from Mexico in September. That’s when her pilot program will have run for a year – unless the federal court orders her to end it before then. Could it be that Mary Peters finally woke up and smelled the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=41&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Peters to get called on the carpet again</title>
		<link>http://firemarypeters.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/mary-peters-to-get-called-on-the-carpet-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ll be dressed down by another one. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=40&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News from the Twilight Zone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Mary Peters said she wants to find ways to make rural roads safer. http://www.thetrucker.com/News/Stories/2008/2/29/USTransportationSecretaryPetersannouncesnewruralroadsafetystrategy.aspx Here&#8217;s a suggestion: Close the border to dangerous trucks from Mexico!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=39&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mary Peters Is Not the Only Anti-Worker Diva in the Bush Administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out www.shameonelaine.org, which exposes the misdeeds of George Bush’s long-serving secretary of Labor.   Elaine Chao has been attacking workers longer than Mary Peters, since she’s been a Cabinet secretary for more than seven years. (Mary Peters became U.S. Transportation Secretary in September 2006.)  Mary Peters lets Mexican trucks endanger American drivers. Elaine Chao allows mining [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=38&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Dorgan to Mary Peters: &#8220;You are in violation of the law.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://firemarypeters.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/sen-dorgan-to-mary-peters-you-are-in-violation-of-the-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mary Peters got a good tongue-lashing this morning from our friend Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing. Peters was testifying on next year&#8217;s transportation budget &#8211; another reason to fire her, but that&#8217;s a different issue. Dorgan recalled he had supported Mary Peters&#8217; nomination as Transportation Secretary. &#8221;I was pleased to do so,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Now I&#8217;m regretting that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=37&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Every morning you pass a billboard saying you suck at your job &#8230; &amp; the truth hurts!</title>
		<link>http://firemarypeters.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/every-morning-you-pass-a-billboard-saying-you-suck-at-your-job-the-truth-hurts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I saw a blog posting at MetroBlogging, Washington DC with a post titled, &#8220;Only in DC: Fire Mary Peters.&#8221; The writer states, &#8220;Then I realized how much it would suck to come to work every day on the Metro to see ads that you should be fired.&#8221; I left the following message at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=firemarypeters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2545754&amp;post=36&amp;subd=firemarypeters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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