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Section 404(d) of title 23, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘Commerce’’ and inserting ‘‘Transportation’’. SEC.

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(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— (1) there has been considerable progress over the past 25 years in reducing the number and rate of alcohol-related highway facilities; (2) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration projects that fatalities in alcohol-related crashes declined in 2003 for the 2nd year in a row; (3) in spite of this progress, an estimated 17,013 Americans died in 2003, in alcohol-related crashes; (4) these fatalities comprise 40 percent of the annual total highway fatalities; (5) about 250,000 are injured each year in alcohol-related crashes; (6) the past 2 years of decreasing alcohol-related fatalities follows a 3-year increase; (7) alcohol-impaired driving is the Nation’s most frequently committed violent crime; (8) the annual cost of alcohol-related crashes is over $100,000,000,000, including $9,000,000,000 in costs to employers; (9) a Presidential Commission on Alcohol Impaired Driving in 1982 and 1983 helped to lead to substantial progress on this issue; and (10) these facts point to the need to renew the national commitment to preventing these deaths and injuries. (b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that, in an effort to further change the culture of alcohol-impaired driving on our Nation’s highways, the President should consider establishing a Presidential Commission on Alcohol-Impaired Driving— (1) comprised of representatives of— (A) State and local governments, including State legislators; (B) law enforcement; (C) traffic safety experts, including researchers; (D) victims of alcohol-related crashes; (E) affected industries, including the alcohol, insurance, motorcycle, and auto industries; (F) the business community; (G) labor; (H) the medical community; (I) public health; and (J) Members of Congress; and (2) that not later than September 30, 2006, would— (A) conduct a full examination of alcohol-impaired driving issues; and

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