{"id":1917435,"date":"2023-04-21T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dem-rep-praises-buttigieg-for-making-crash-test-dummies-female\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T00:30:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T04:30:20","slug":"watch-dem-rep-praises-buttigieg-for-making-crash-test-dummies-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dem-rep-praises-buttigieg-for-making-crash-test-dummies-female\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Dem Rep Praises Buttigieg for Making Crash Test Dummies Female"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-dem-rep-praises-buttigieg-for-making-crash-test-dummies-female%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tTransportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>A Democratic representative applauded transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg for fighting &#8220;gender inequity&#8221; by pushing to include female crash test dummies in car safety testing.<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You also plan to make important investments to address the roadway safety crisis, including the critical funding that would accelerate the development \u2014and this is an area I\u2019ve written to you about\u2014of the use of female dummies in crash testing,&#8221; Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.) told Buttigieg during Thursday&#8217;s House budget hearing for the Department of Transportation. &#8220;This will start to fight the gender inequity among vehicle safety and crash victims.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) highlights the vital work that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is doing to ensure that &#8220;female dummies&#8221; are used in vehicle crash testing &#8220;to fight the gender inequity among&#8230;crash victims.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sZj5TqWrnp\">pic.twitter.com\/sZj5TqWrnp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1649054160380399619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Buttigieg fell under scrutiny in the hearing for his climate change agenda when Rep. Ryan Zinke (R., Mont.) <\/span><span>questioned<\/span><span> him on the effect of the Biden administration&#8217;s policies on U.S. energy independence.<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;How do you get to be energy independent when the components of EV today are all controlled by China?&#8221; Zinke asked the transportation secretary. So long as China produces the necessary materials to produce electric vehicles, Zinke said, &#8220;our pursuit of EV makes us more dependent on China.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Female crash test dummies is not the first agenda item Buttigieg has pursued in the name of equity. The transportation secretary last year <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/buttigieg-racism-scandal\/\">announced<\/a> a $1 billion initiative &#8220;to build racial equity in roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg A Democratic representative applauded transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg for fighting &#8220;gender inequity&#8221; by pushing to include female crash test dummies in car safety testing. &#8220;You also plan to make important investments to address the roadway safety crisis, including the critical funding that would accelerate the development \u2014and this is an area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1708,"featured_media":1917436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4943,6444,6244,24773,4925,7360,7129,4516],"class_list":["post-1917435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-buttigieg","tag-crash","tag-dem","tag-dummies","tag-female","tag-praises","tag-rep","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}