[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 205 (Wednesday, December 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H6875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             LET THEM TRUCK

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, there is a saying in the trucking business: 
If you got it, a truck brought it.
  We need to work to make the ability to deliver the products, the raw 
materials, all the interactions of commerce that trucks bring easier 
and more streamlined. The regulatory load that the Biden administration 
as well as my home State wants makes it harder to buy trucks.
  They have had an unnecessary Federal excise tax since World War I on 
trucks to help pay for the war that costs $20,000 to $30,000 for every 
new vehicle, yet we want them to replace trucks, so they are cleaner, 
more efficient, and safer.
  They want burdensome regulations on driver duty time, putting speed 
limiters on them so that trucks can't stay with traffic. All these 
burdens make it much more difficult to deliver what you want.
  We need to reel in the Biden administration and have them actually 
listen to the people out there on the roads, the truckers and the 
people that rely on them to deliver raw materials and finished 
products.
  More regulations are not going to help that. Taking away the internal 
combustion engine is not going to help that. Electrifying every truck 
is not going to help that. Let them truck.

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