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This Is How Gavin Newsom Is Leading The U.S. 'Down The Path Of Total Insanity': GOP Lawmaker
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5/5/2025
In House floor remarks on Wednesday, Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) decried a California trucking rule, aiming his ire at Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).
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The gentleman from Virginia is recognized.
00:04
Thank you, Madam Speaker.
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I now recognize the gentleman from California for three minutes.
00:10
The gentleman is recognized.
00:12
Thank you, Madam Speaker.
00:13
Our governor in California, Gavin Newsom,
00:15
likes to say that California leads the nation.
00:18
And unfortunately, President Biden enabled him to do just that,
00:23
to lead our nation down a path of total insanity in a way
00:27
that puts us at war with common sense, with American consumers,
00:31
and with our fantastic truckers.
00:34
California has come after truckers in every way you can imagine,
00:39
whether it's by far the highest diesel tax in the country,
00:42
the regulation after regulation after regulation
00:45
that makes more and more trucks unusable,
00:48
or AB5 that went after the independent owner-operator model
00:52
and threatened to put thousands of truckers out of work.
00:56
But with this regulation, the state came after the whole wall of wax.
01:00
They said, we're going to take your truck itself.
01:03
With this regulation, the state said that by just the year 2035,
01:07
but we're going to have for some classes of trucks,
01:10
55% have to be zero emission vehicles, for others 75%, for others 40%.
01:16
So what is the practical consequence of this going to be?
01:19
Well, first, trucks are going to be a lot more expensive,
01:21
thousands of dollars, tens of thousands of dollars more expensive.
01:25
Companies, they're either going to have to buy more trucks
01:28
or they're going to have to carry less in their trucks
01:30
because there's less capacity because of the weight of the battery.
01:34
And by the way, they're going to have to rely on use infrastructure,
01:38
charging infrastructure that doesn't even exist at this point in time.
01:42
So American consumers, as we're seeing already in California,
01:47
we'll see the cost of just about everything, certainly the cost of groceries go up,
01:54
and this will only contribute to the fact that we have a shortage of truck drivers in our state and in this country.
02:01
And yes, California is being allowed to create policy for the whole country
02:06
because 11 states are tied to California's actions here
02:09
and because it puts manufacturers in a dilemma if they have to manufacture one truck for one state
02:14
and another truck for another state.
02:15
So today, we are restoring common sense.
02:18
We are restoring uniformity when it comes to interstate commerce.
02:23
We are restoring support for our truckers, and we are lowering costs for consumers.
02:29
And by the way, we believe fully in innovation, and we believe in a clean energy future for this country.
02:38
We believe in clean air.
02:40
But it is through innovation that we will get to clean air.
02:43
It is not by government fiat.
02:45
Indeed, it is an odd approach to innovation that says we are going to somehow magically fiat innovation
02:52
by banning any and all available alternatives.
02:55
That is not the way it works.
02:57
And finally, to the notion from the gentleman from New Jersey that this sets a dangerous precedent.
03:02
I will note that no California legislator ever voted on this or the car ban.
03:07
No member of this house has voted on it.
03:09
No individual citizen has voted on it.
03:11
There has been no vote whatsoever on a policy of profound personal consequence
03:16
to 40 million Californians and tens of millions other Americans.
03:20
I think that is precisely the precedent actually putting this to a vote of the people's representatives that we need to set today.
03:26
The time has expired.
03:27
I yield back.
03:28
I reserve.
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