[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 124 (Monday, July 21, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H3484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             ENDING WASTE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS IN CALIFORNIA

  (Mr. KILEY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, this last week, we won a 
momentous victory in cutting off further Federal funding for the 
California high-speed rail disaster. Yet, no sooner had the 
announcement been made than the Governor of California ran to court to 
file his latest frivolous lawsuit.
  I say ``his latest'' because it was just a couple of weeks ago that 
Governor Newsom was unanimously defeated before the Ninth Circuit Court 
of Appeals on his National Guard lawsuit.
  Yet, this frivolous lawsuit is particularly perverse because the 
Governor is now wasting taxpayer dollars suing so that he is able to 
continue wasting taxpayer dollars on an epic scale on a project that 
will go down as the single biggest waste of taxpayer dollars in U.S. 
history.
  The good news is that this lawsuit is going nowhere, and we now have 
a chance to finally wind this embarrassing project down so that the tax 
dollars of Californians can go where they are needed: toward fixing our 
crumbling roads.

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