OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Amendment No. 1 Offered By Mr. Massie

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 22, 2026
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to the amendment.

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Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Chair, the bipartisan infrastructure law requires drunk and impaired driving technology to become standard equipment in new cars once a rule has been finalized by the Department of Transportation.

More than 30 people in the United States die every day in drunk driving crashes, and more than 12,000 people a year suffer these preventable deaths.

Using the appropriations process to delay or in any way impede the development of technology to prevent drunk driving is inappropriate and reckless.

What we have before us today is a bipartisan, conferenced bill. It is already a compromise from what Members on both sides of the aisle wanted. Debating and attaching an amendment to this bill risks the entire package.

Mr. Chair, I look forward to the time when we can debate the substance of this amendment because I have some thoughts on the data that I want the administration to be thinking about, but the time for debate on the individual policies is not now.

This amendment, which could delay the technology that would limit drunk driving and save lives, is not the amendment to support. This amendment should not be inserted into this bipartisan bill at this point in the process.

I strongly oppose it and urge my colleagues to vote ``no.'' I reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), the distinguished ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

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Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Chair, I have one additional speaker.

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Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Gillen).

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Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to how much time I have remaining.

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Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Chair, I would like to take that 15 seconds to thank those who spoke in opposition to this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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