[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 113 (Tuesday, July 9, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H4513]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   DON'T DO WHAT WE DO IN CALIFORNIA

  (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, I come from California, which there is a 
certain amount of risk in saying that because we do a lot of wacky 
things there. It is a wonderful State with wonderful geography, 
wonderful weather, and so many great things, but the governance 
sometimes--I don't know.
  What we are exporting currently is a lot of the work of the 
California Air Resources Board, which currently is trying to regulate 
locomotives into technology that doesn't even yet exist, and therefore, 
foist that same nontechnology onto other States. We are talking about 
the logistics of moving freight in California but also out of 
California and that can't be moved because they don't have a plan for 
that.
  They would have them switch locomotives at the border, but with 
CARB's plans, they don't really care about that. They want to make 
everybody in the whole country buy locomotives to meet a Tier 4, they 
call it, which isn't even available yet. Beyond Tier 4, they want to go 
to zero emissions, which isn't really zero, the so-called electric 
trains. They are not even available. The technology isn't there, and 
CARB wants all of this done by the year 2030.
  Imagine the logistics of getting food from California, which people 
rely on. Mr. Speaker, 99 percent of certain crops come from California. 
We won't be able to ship them out as well as the military material that 
might need to be moved out of our State in times of war or conflict. 
Anyway, don't do what we do in California.

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