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As head of the National Motorists Association, Jim Baxter works on the legislative front lines to protect the rights of American drivers.
Tell us about the origins of the NMA.
It was founded to repeal the 55-mph national maximum speed limit. It's strictly a grassroots organization. The idea was that we could rally all the people who were supportive of getting higher speed limits on the rural interstate system - and other places as well. That was the formative objective of the organization and remained our primary objective up until 1987, when we were successful in getting Congress to at least allow the states to raise the speed limit to 65. We then became involved in a wider range of motorist issues, but the speed limit and speed-limit-related topics have always been among our primary areas of involvement.
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