At a Senate Republican press briefing on Tuesday, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) spoke about the Congressional Review Act and the California waiver.
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00:00Hi, everybody. As chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, I am the one who is leading the California Waiver of the Congressional Review Act.
00:11I think that when you talk about lack of choice, when you talk about a mandate in California that spreads to 17 other states,
00:19the onerous quality of this rule is just beyond description, not just the penalties, forcing certain states and certain consumers to purchase a vehicle that they may not want or that they can't find.
00:35It really eliminates what I think our country was built on, which is individual choice and making the decisions for yourselves.
00:42So we are, I think the one thing that's interesting about this mandate is the Biden administration, the California asked for this waiver in May of 2023.
00:52It was not granted until the very end of December of 2024.
00:59Do you know why? Because they know the American people reject this handily, and it would have really cost them in states like Michigan and other places to have an EV vehicle mandate in front of the American people.
01:14So they held it. The Trump administration, under Administrator Zeldin's leadership, submitted it as a rule.
01:21It is a rule submitted to this. It is within the boundaries of the Congressional Review Act, and we're going to deal with it tomorrow.