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| | deseretnews.com | Senate proposes tougher penalties for drunken driving | Deseret Morning News Web edition |
 | | WASHINGTON The Senate version of the giant highway bill now before Congress would push the states to adopt stiff penalties for three categories of drunken drivers responsible for much of the death toll: repeat offenders, those with very high blood-alcohol levels, and those whose licenses were suspended for drunken driving but kept driving anyway. |
 | | The bill is in a conference committee, where a variety of issues, including the overall spending level, are in negot- iation. |
 | | Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., a conferee on the bill, said in a phone interview that his wife and daughter had been hit head-on by a drunken driver one afternoon in the mid-1990s, as they were driving about a mile from their home in New Hartford, N.Y., near Utica. |
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