The Appropriations Commmitee will go over the fine details of this testimony in the near future. In other news, on the floor this morning, senators began this year's debate over an on-going problem teenage drinking. Capitol View's Bill Ganzel has the details. In a recent survey, half of all Nebraska teenagers have been in a car where the driver had been drinking. That's higher than the national average, of a third.
Accidents are the leading cause of death in young people, and binge drinking is increasing.
The one thing that's really important to a teenager is their drivers' license. In surrounding states they found out that when you take away that drivers' license, you do stop the teenage drinking. And Sen. Ernie Chambers argued that making a teen a criminal was the wrong way to deal with the problem. And if the license is taken then to drive without a license subjects the person to six months in prison. And that's what you all want to do.