A bill which would lower the blood alcohol limit for drunken driving convictions has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee. Committee chairman Andy McKean, a republican from Anamosa, says lowering the limit to point-oh-eight makes sense. McKean says he wasn’t willing to let the bill die in his committee, and now it can be debated on the Senate floor.McKean admits, though, the bill faces a dim future.The bill passed the committee on an eight to four vote and now sits on the Senate’s debate calendar.
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