Jay Obernolte

If we want to win the future, if we want to own the technologies, my God, get the hell out of the way.

We should all be worried about the legislative authority of Congress being usurped by the executive branch.

Regardless of political affiliation, every member of this institution should be bothered by regulatory policies that usurp Congress' legislative authority.

the government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers when it comes to Federal contracting.

This Administration published a proposed rule in November, which declared that all major contractors would have to set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.

The federal government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers.

The existential threat posed by climate change demands that we do everything within our power to confront it.

I applaud the goals of this rulemaking.

To me, that raises some serious legal and national security issues.

But in my opinion, that's not why we're here. We're here discussing whether or not the Administration has the legal authority to impose that rule, absent clear authorization from Congress.

I thank my colleague from Louisiana for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I will talk for a few minutes tonight about a critically important bill that we are debating on the House floor this week. It is one of the must-pass bills for us this year…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 129, after line 25, insert the following: (7) Put in place a system that ensures available resources…

The FAA is responsible for administrating and certifying pilots in the United States. The certification of these pilots takes place in the form of written tests administered at a test center, but also in the form of practical tests that…

I would strongly object to the characterization of this amendment as burdensome. If you want an example of burdensome, think about a student pilot who has applied to get their pilot's license. Mr. Chair, I have been a certified flight…

Aviation fuel is one of the few fuels remaining that still contains lead. It has been universally acknowledged that lead is not good for our environment. It is not good for our children. It is not good for human ingestion. It causes…

I hope there has been no confusion here. We are all on the same team. We want to get the lead out of aviation fuel. This amendment allows us to do that. The current situation is that when an industry standard consensus fuel emerges that…

I have a further amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 309, line 14, strike ``or''. Page 309, line 18, strike the period at the end and insert ``…

To be clear, we are trying to give airports the option of a transition to an unleaded aviation fuel when that option becomes available to them. Some language is needed to do this because airports are confused about whether or not doing…

I hope that we can accomplish something similar in spaceflight because I think we're going to have to confront that question eventually.

This week, the House will be debating a critically important piece of legislation, the Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. The bill that we are considering this week provides a much-needed 5.2 percent increase in…

I represent a very rural district in California. As I'm sure everyone is aware, California has experienced some of the worst wildfire seasons in the entire history of our State just in the last couple of years.

My motivation for introducing my bill to prevent the EPA from granting that request and requests like it is twofold.

This week, our House Armed Services Committee is continuing the critical process of crafting the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024. This important piece of legislation will give our servicemen and servicewomen the…

One of the bills that we are hearing today is my bill, H.R. 1435, that would restrict the EPA from issuing a waiver for any new regulations that would completely ban the sale of internal combustion motor vehicles.

We have to keep the needs of the economically disadvantaged in mind when we make these decisions.