Honorable Mike DeWine
United States Senator, Ohio, Republican
Senator DeWine was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. He served in the Ohio Senate from 1980 to 1982, represented the Seventh District of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991, and was Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1991 to 1995. He is a member of the Judiciary Committee, the Labor and Human Resources Committee, and the Intelligence Committee. The following statement is from the Senate floor debate of March 4, 1998, on the Lautenberg-DeWine amendment to S. 1173, the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), to establish a national standard prohibiting driving by…