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WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Tuesday to ban Mexican trucks from U.S. roadways, rekindling a more than decade-old trade dispute with Mexico. By a 74-24 vote, the Senate approved a proposal by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., prohibiting the Transportation Department from spending money on a North American Free Trade Agreement pilot program giving Mexican trucks access to U.S. highways. The proposal is part of a $106 billion transportation and housing spending bill that the Senate hopes to vote on later this week. The House approved a similar provision to Dorgan's in July as part of its version of the transportation...

You have to hand it to President Bush — he is persistent. The Iraq war would be a good case of persistence, if not exactly a good war. But let’s not get distracted by that war this week as there are many more examples of Bush’s persistence which don’t carry the emotional baggage of Iraq. Without taking time to analyze each and every one of them, there were the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, the proposal to turn U.S. port security over to the Mideast city-state of Dubai, the dogged loyalty to Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales,...

Check this out later this week, to hear about the NAFTA railroad. For Immediate release: For additional information contact: August 30, 2007 William Galligan - 816-983-1551 KCS' Arthur L. Shoener to Address Morgan Keegan 2007 Equity Conference   / / Kansas City, Mo., August 30, 2007 - Kansas City Southern (KCS) (NYSE: KSU) president and chief operating officer, Arthur L. Shoener, will address the Morgan Keegan 2007 Equity Conference at approximately 12:15 p.m. Central Time on Thursday, September 6, 2007. Note the updated time. Interested investors not attending the conference may listen to the presentation via a simultaneous webcast on...