July 20, 2023 1:25pm EDT
Republicans join Dems to defeat bill forcing Pete Buttigieg to disclose government jet use
10 Republicans including House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves voted against the bill
By Thomas Catenacci | Fox News
A group of 10 House Republicans helped Democrats sink a bill that would have forced Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to report his flight records on government-owned jets.
The bill — introduced by Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., as an amendment to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization legislation — was defeated in a narrow 219-216 vote late Wednesday. According to the roll call, 10 Republicans voted against while three Democrats voted in favor of the amendment which had language to "require a report on the Secretary of Transportation flight records."
"We are disappointed that Representative Miller’s important amendment failed," Caitlin Sutherland, the executive director for watchdog group Americans for Public Trust (APT), told Fox News Digital. "After Secretary Buttigieg was caught excessively using a taxpayer-funded private jet, his department doubled-down and is refusing to release the true cost of these flights."
"That’s why we’re suing the FAA, because it is the right of the American people to have these records and they deserve transparency," she added.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., and GOP Reps. Troy Balderson, Jack Bergman, Brian Fitzpatrick, Garret Graves, David Joyce, Jennifer Kiggans, Marcus Molinaro and Brandon Williams voted against the amendment.
Democratic Reps. Yadira Caraveo, Ted Lieu and Katie Porter voted in favor of the bill.
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