Jay Obernolte

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.

I have introduced a bill, H.R. 3340, the GRANTED Act, that would simply say if you have a permit that has met all of the other requirements but the shot clock has expired through the inaction of a Federal agency for the permitting of…

I think we're all united in our desire to make sure that this money is wisely and appropriately spent.

the vast majority of the manufacturers of equipment that's compliant with the rule are foreign manufacturers, and there are hardly any, if any, domestic manufacturers that have equipment that is compliant with the rule.

I hope to hear today that the Department of Energy is bucking this historical trend and working hard to ensure that doesn't occur here.

I have--there are electric snowblowers that are available. I have used those electric snowblowers, and I assure you that they're adequate for a couple of inches of snow but not 5 feet of snow.

you have proposed a 19 percent expansion in the EPA's budget, and I find that a little puzzling given the fact that under the IRA and the IIJA the EPA has received over a thousand percent increase in total funding.

We are trying to do our duty as Members of the legislative branch in providing oversight.

It is still important for Congress to know why the Department has not provided substantive responses to our letter and how the Department could conclude that Department employees holding individual stocks of the energy companies they…

One of the things that came out of that hearing that was really alarming to me was testimony from them, almost universally, saying that they didn't have the resources in their departments to conduct oversight.

I would consider the response to be wholly insufficient.

I also am interested in talking to you about how anyone could possibly conclude that having Department employees own stock in the same companies that they regulate is not a conflict of interest.

I think sometimes we forget about the fact that when we allow this patchwork of regulation to exist with 50 different laws and 50 different States, it is very destructive to entrepreneurialism.

Unfortunately, what we are experiencing is that in many occurrences the Federal agencies involved take more than 270 days to process those permits, and unfortunately, there are no penalties or consequences for them doing that.

I represent an extremely rural district, and the problems that my constituents have in accessing broadband are exacerbated by the fact that over 90 percent of the land mass of my district is in public ownership in one form or another.

My bill would deem approval for any application for broadband infrastructure across public lands that has been pending for more than 270 days.

The problem of increasing energy costs is a critically important issue for my constituents. Many of the members of my community are paying natural gas prices over twice as high as they were a year ago, and they count themselves lucky…

it was an abuse of power by the Federal Government and in particular by Tony Fauci and Francis Collins

Ultimately, the solution is to enact comprehensive Federal data privacy legislation that will prevent that kind of behavior.

I would appreciate it if you could give us--I see we are out of time again--a written answer to that.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

I am of the opinion we need to totally federally preempt it.

I couldn't agree with you more.

It is a critical tool that was established by the bipartisan work of this committee, and we must ensure that it is protected from future cyber threats.

In times of national crisis, our Constitution and our Federal laws empower our President to temporarily seize extraordinary power. This is necessary to allow him the authority to alter Federal law to meet the urgent needs of the emergency…