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Here’s a news item from AP: “The Idaho Senate is making another run at closing loopholes allowing kids to ride unrestrained in automobiles. The chamber voted 19-15 to require kids to be restrained at all times when riding in a car. Sen. Joyce Broadsword, a Sagle Republican and longtime proponent of stricter laws governing child safety restraints, said unrestrained kids become “a loose cannonball in a car.” Idaho now allows kids being breastfed or otherwise cared for to be removed from restraints in a moving car. And if all seatbelts are in use, they can also go without. Idaho could qualify for enough federal money to buy about 7,000 child safety seats for low income families, if the loopholes are closed. But two years ago, a similar measure stalled in the House, after leaders refused it a hearing.”
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Sisyphus on March 16 at 11:22 a.m.
Bizarre. This doesn’t bode well in the House. I’m curious at the principle upon which the nays seem to be resting. Are they turning badly need money away because they don’t like the fed’s paternalism? How odd then that they act like petulant children. Or maybe they just don’t want children to be safe.