Sam Graves

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), the ranking member of the Education and Labor Committee.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, I rise again to express my disappointment at the partisan nature of the amendments in this package. For example, it includes an airdropped rail amendment that imposes unreasonable mandates on freight rail carrying waste by attempting to force an impractical, one-size- fits-all solution that would create more problems than it attempts to solve. It includes a significant change in the Economic Development Agency's revolving loan program and new requirements on public buildings that the committee never had a chance to consider under regular order. It also includes an amendment that requires the Department of Transportation to share protected security and business information on pipeline incidents with State and local governments, creating unintended safety and security risks. Mr. Speaker, this bill is full of partisan amendments meant to fulfill the Speaker's messaging agenda of unchecked spending and unserious, one-sided Green New Deal excesses. These provisions are going to create difficult, impractical, and unreasonable mandates on the rail and aviation industries at a time when we should be doing what we can to help them just survive. For these reasons, I urge my colleagues to very much oppose this en bloc amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa).

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cline).

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Palmer).

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa).

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. I continue to reserve the balance of my time, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Aviation.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. Crawford), who is the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. I continue to reserve the balance of my time, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. The mace indicates we are in session. Are we in session or in the Committee of the Whole?

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I have a parliamentary inquiry.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I might point out that, yes, there are discretionary grants in here for electrical vehicles. What is interesting is electric vehicles don't pay for the use of that road either, because the highway trust fund still has yet to be addressed, has yet to be determined how we are even going to move forward, which is a huge frustration in this bill. There are absolutely no pay-fors. Mr. Speaker, I yield to 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. GRAVES of Missouri. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis), who is the ranking member of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee.