{"id":22,"date":"2007-03-22T01:40:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T01:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/?p=26"},"modified":"2007-03-22T01:40:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T01:40:54","slug":"tennessee-house-advances-bredesens-measure-to-stop-driver-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee House advances Bredesen&#8217;s measure to stop driver certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen&rsquo;s proposal to eliminate the state&rsquo;s driver certificate program for non-U.S. citizens was advanced by the House Transportation Committee on Tuesday despite opposition from the committee chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The measure carried by Rep. Mike Turner, D-Old Hickory, would create temporary driver&rsquo;s licenses for legal residents for the duration of their visas. A suspended program that allowed non-citizens to obtain a driving certificate regardless of their immigration status would be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Chairman Phillip Pinion, D-Union City, said the driver certificates ensured that even illegal immigrants knew the rules of the road.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My responsibility is to keep the state&rsquo;s highways as safe as possible,&rdquo; said Pinion. &ldquo;And I feel that doing away with these certificates will make our highways more dangerous.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dnj.midsouthnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070320\/NEWS01\/70320023\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen&rsquo;s proposal to eliminate the state&rsquo;s driver certificate program for non-U.S. citizens was advanced by the House Transportation Committee on Tuesday despite opposition from the committee chairman. The measure carried by Rep. Mike Turner, D-Old Hickory, would create temporary driver&rsquo;s licenses for legal residents for the duration of their visas. A suspended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wethepeopleofamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}