Texting while driving.
The Iowa House has voted to make it illegal to send a text message while driving. While some lawmakers argued the bill doesn’t go far enough, others said it goes too far.
“Once again we go after Iowa’s youth because we’re too old to remember what it was like when we were driving 70 miles an hour on a two-lane road with no seat belts,” said Representative Lance Horbach, a Republican from Tama who voted “no” on the bill. “And we think we’re making it safer.”
Representative Mike May, a Republican from Spirit Lake, is a retired school teacher who argued in favor of the ban on texting while driving. “Folks, I think the bottom line in all of this is that our children are dying in automobiles,” May said. “We are giving them another gun or another knife in the car to inflict bodily harm on themselves.”
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