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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, has vetoed a series of bills passed by the
Texas Legislature, clearing the way for the Texas Department of Transportation to
begin construction on the four-football-fields-wide new Trans-Texas Corridor
along Interstate 35 (TTC-35) from the Mexican border at Laredo north to the
Oklahoma border south of Oklahoma City for the Mexican Trucks.

Perry vetoed an eminent-domain reform bill passed by the Legislature. Provisions
in the bill would have made prohibitively expensive the acquisition of the
thousands of acres of private land needed to construct the Trans-Texas corridor.

In vetoing the bill, Perry's office issued a press release claiming House Bill
No. 2006 "would vastly expand the cost to Texas taxpayers of public projects to
the point where they grossly outweigh the bill's benefits."

Steven Anderson, director of the Institute for Justice's Castle Coalition,
objected.

"With this veto, Governor Perry has left every home, farm, ranch and
small-business owner vulnerable to the abuse of eminent domain," Anderson said in
a press release.

Anderson's organization is a national grass-roots advocacy group that works to
block private-to-private transfers of property using eminent domain.

A month earlier, Perry vetoed House Bill No. 1892, a measure that would have
imposed a two-year moratorium on beginning construction on the Trans-Texas
Corridor parallel to Interstate 35.

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In that veto message, Perry claimed the bill "jeopardizes billions of dollars of
infrastructure investment and invites a potentially significant reduction in
federal transportation funding."

These measures were approved overwhelmingly by the Texas Legislature, with HB
1892 passing the Texas House by a 137-2 margin. HB 2006 passed with 125 of the
150 votes in the House and unanimously in the Senate.

When HB 2006 cleared the Texas Legislature, the Federal Highway Administration
Chief Counsel James D. Ray wrote a letter to the Texas Department of
Transportation, or TxDOT, threatening to hold federal highway funds from the
state if Perry signed the bill into law.

Perry's veto message strongly suggests the FHWA's threat was heard loud and clear
in Austin.

According to Bloomberg.com, the last time the Texas Legislature overrode a
governor's veto was more than a quarter of a century ago, in 1979.

The $180 billion needed to build the 4,000-mile TTC network planned for
construction over the next 50 years will be financed by Cintra Concesiones de
Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., a foreign investment consortium based in
Spain. Cintra will own the leasing and operating rights on TTC highways for 50
years after their completion is complete.

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Perry has received substantial campaign contributions from Cintra and Zachry
Construction Company, the San Antonio-based construction firm selected by TxDOT
to build out the TTC.

Mexican ports are being increasingly used as an alternative to West Coast ports
such as Los Angeles and Long Beach as a cheaper, non-union alternative for the
import of millions of containers from China.

The Department of Transportation plans to start a Mexican truck demonstration
project as early as Aug. 15, despite continuing objections from Congress.

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