The focus of the campaign is a bill that would raise average fuel economy to 40 miles a gallon.
In states that raised the speed limit to 65 miles an hour, death rates were 21 percent higher last year than in 1982 through 1984.
He'd thought the base less than a mile away, but he quickly raised his estimate to three miles.
In April 1987, 38 states began raising car speed limits to 65 miles per hour on rural interstates.
And I said that we ought to have a goal of raising the fuel-efficiency standards to 40 miles a gallon.
The rural speed limit was raised to 65 miles an hour.
I think that the highway speed limit should be raised to 65 miles per hour.
The industry preferred that the light truck tire endurance test be raised to 68 miles an hour, not 75.
But yesterday the airline said that, beginning June 1, it would raise that level to 25,000 miles all year.
He opposed a proposal to raise the highway speed limit to 65 miles an hour.