{"id":1979754,"date":"2023-07-21T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-help-defeat-measures-to-reinstate-pilots-fired-over-covid-vaccine-reveal-buttigieg-flight-records\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:12:01","slug":"republicans-help-defeat-measures-to-reinstate-pilots-fired-over-covid-vaccine-reveal-buttigieg-flight-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-help-defeat-measures-to-reinstate-pilots-fired-over-covid-vaccine-reveal-buttigieg-flight-records\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Blocks Efforts to Reinstate Fired Pilots, Exposes Buttigieg&#8217;s Flight Records"},"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%2Frepublicans-help-defeat-measures-to-reinstate-pilots-fired-over-covid-vaccine-reveal-buttigieg-flight-records%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=1979754&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--><h2>Conservative Measures\u200c to Reinstate Pilots Who Refused COVID Vaccine Fail\u2064 in House<\/h2>\n<p>During the debate on a bill to reauthorize the Federal \u200dAviation Administration (FAA), several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-real-north-carolina-gov-declares-state-of-emergency-because-republican-led-school-choice-is-about-to-pass\/\" title=\"NC Governor declares 'state of emergency' over Republican-led school choice bill.\">conservative measures<\/a>, including\u2062 one to reinstate pilots\u2062 who lost their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kerry-coal-miners-oil-drillers-can-make-solar-panels\/\" title=\"John Kerry: Coal miners, oil drillers can make solar panels\">jobs due<\/a> to refusing\u200c the COVID vaccine, \u200dfailed in the Republican-controlled House.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Amendment to \u200dReinstate Fired Pilots Fails<\/h3>\n<p>An amendment that would have required airlines to reinstate pilots who were fired or lost \u2062their job\u2063 because they did not want to take the COVID vaccine failed 141-294\u2062 in the \u200bHouse.\u200c Eighty-three Republicans \u200dvoted against the measure, and Maine Democrat\u2062 Jared Golden\u2062 voted for the measure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Representative Mary Miller (R-IL) offered the amendment on the House floor after it was filed by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Medical \u2063Freedom and Job Loss<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cHundreds of pilots\u2062 were\u200b forced out of their livelihoods over the past several years for\u200d their refusal to get \u200bthe COVID vaccine,\u201d \u2062Greene said on Wednesday. \u201cThey were denied medical freedom \u200bto decide whether they should take the experimental COVID vaccine\u200d or\u200c lose their job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/our-cultural-degeneracy-is-actually-a-return-to-normalcy\/\" title=\"Our cultural decline is a return to normal.\">full \u2062extent<\/a> of how many \u200bpilots were fired or \u200dquit over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-help-defeat-measures-to-reinstate-pilots-fired-over-covid-vaccine-reveal-buttigieg-flight-records\/\" title=\"GOP Blocks Efforts to Reinstate Fired Pilots, Exposes Buttigieg's Flight Records\">vaccine mandates remains unclear<\/a>, but some airlines strictly enforced the policy, with United Airlines firing hundreds of employees who chose to remain\u2062 unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Other Republican-backed amendments to the FAA\u2062 bill also failed, \u2063including \u200bone provision which would have made Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg disclose his travel on private jets paid \u200dfor by taxpayers. Buttigieg has been criticized in recent months over his use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-its-okay-for-biden-to-travel-because-he-has-private-plane-were-working-on-vaccine-passports-with-private-sector\/\" title=\"Psaki: It\u2019s Okay For Biden To Travel Because He Has \u2018Private Plane\u2019; We\u2019re Working On Vaccine Passports With Private Sector\">private planes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Fighting for Transparency<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThis week, I was proud to fight for taxpayers &#038; \u2064transparency \u2063with my amendment \u200bto obtain Secretary Buttigieg\u2019s private jet records. Air travel has become chaotic in our country, including the first\u200b FAA full ground stoppage since 9\/11. I\u2019ll never stop fighting against the Swamp!\u201d \u200bMiller <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMaryMiller\/status\/1682395274407481345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE\u2062 TO GET THE DAILY \u200bWIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With 10 Republicans voting\u200c against the amendment, it\u2064 failed 216-219, including Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO),\u200b Reps. Troy Balderson (R-OH), Jack Bergman \u2063(R-MI), Brian \u200dFitzpatrick (R-PA), Garret Graves (R-LA), David\u2064 Joyce (R-OH), \u2063Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA), Marcus Molinaro (R-NY), and Brandon Williams (R-NY). Three Democrats \u2014 Reps. Katie Porter and Ted Lieu\u200b of California \u2063and Yadira Caraveo of Colorado \u2014 voted for the amendment.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Balderson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/republicans-join-dems-defeat-bill-forcing-pete-buttigieg-disclose-government-jet-use\">said<\/a> that the vote against the amendment was by accident\u200c and that he intended to file to \u2063get his vote changed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Amendment on Turbulence Study\u200d Shot Down<\/h3>\n<p>Another amendment that\u200b was shot down was\u2062 by freshman Tennessee Republican Rep. \u200dAndy Ogles, who\u2064 attempted to pass an amendment \u201cto clarify\u200d that a study of turbulence \u2062should include a focus on weather\u200c conditions rather than climate change since weather is the \u200bproximate cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ultimately, the House <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4107729-house-approves-faa-reauthorization-bill\/#:~:text=The%20House%20on%20Thursday%20overwhelmingly,a%20bipartisan%20351%2D69%20vote.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> 351-69 to reauthorize \u200dthe FAA for five\u2063 more \u2063years appropriating billions of dollars\u2064 for airport funding, also addressing runway safety and ticket\u2062 refunds in the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>due to vaccine refusal was among the conservative measures that did not pass in the Republican-led House. These measures were discussed during the FAA reauthorization bill debate, but failed to gain enough support. The amendment aimed to compel airlines to rehire pilots who were terminated or unemployed due to their refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1979755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1979754","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}