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Sean Duffy: “We were going to enhance the penalties that existed before…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Published | Video Starts at 01:57

And by the way, those are not new rules that were put on the books by US dot. They've been on the books for decades. It's just that We were going to enhance the penalties that existed before Barack Obama changed them in the early 2000s. So we're going back to the original standard, taking vehicles out of service if someone couldn't speak English. And then we did an investigation in regard to non domiciled CDLs. (01:57–02:04)

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Asserts that penalties for English proficiency requirements were changed by Barack Obama in the early 2000s.

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