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Jay Phillip Obernolte is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 8th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Obernolte has focused on issues such as economic development, public safety, and veterans' affairs during his time in office. He has also been involved in discussions regarding the operational efficiency of the House of Representatives.
I am deeply concerned that the continuing resolution we are debating this afternoon includes a suspension of the limit on our national debt through the end of next year. Our national debt is already at historic levels. In fact, today our…
I want to highlight the fact that we can't achieve military preparedness if we can't maintain our base facilities.
I am hoping that I can get your commitment to help us address those deferred maintenance issues.
if the outcome of this whole process is just another PDF or another spreadsheet, I think we will have failed.
I think that we are at an important position here, to build on the Executive order, and to call attention to this problem.
I think recent events have shown just how vulnerable our supply chain can be.
I thank the gentleman, my colleague from Louisiana, for yielding. I am honored to join in helping to celebrate National Police Week where we take a moment out of our lives to honor the commitment and the sacrifice of the men in blue and…
The Federal Government is a natural--actually absolutely critical source of funding and of focusing attention on these efforts.
It's clear that we need to invest more in research and development so that we understand a lot of the questions that are still unanswered.
It can't be understated the incredible role that our research community has had in combatting this virus.
I believe that many of our Federal researchers are the unsung heroes of this epidemic.
Infrastructure is a bipartisan issue. We all agree that one of the primary functions of government is to provide for the people collectively what they are unable to individually provide for themselves. I am talking about things like…
I fear that the recent actions by the administration to end energy development on Federal land will come at an extremely high cost to the people of the United States, and that cost will be borne disproportionately by the segment of our…
I am hopeful that maybe there is a compromise that can respect the rights that I think we all want to respect.
we are never going to be able to compete in terms of salary with institutions in the private sector
We absolutely need a strong, dedicated, and talented Federal scientific workforce, and we need to make sure that we retain those people and that we recruit the best of what is coming out of our Nation's schools and universities.
I fear that H.R. 842 is going to have serious long-term consequences for entrepreneurialism here in America. Mr. Speaker, I started a company 30 years ago out of my college dorm room at Caltech, and I grew it the way that most small…
The House Budget Committee was constituted in 1974, and since then, not a single budget resolution has passed out of this Chamber without hearings and reasoned debate, until today. Should H. Con. Res. 11 pass, it will be the first budget…
Although I share the concerns that have been raised about the MTR, I would like to speak on an aspect of this rules package that I find equally troubling, and that is the provision that would upend nearly 30 years of House tradition in…
I think this is the break that we have all been waiting for to get him out in the open and flushed out and no longer in hiding. And my personal opinion is, now it is only a matter of time.
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