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A bill to strengthen America’s artificial intelligence (AI) workforce introduced by Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Ranking Member Jay Obernolte (R-CA) passed the U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space, and Technology Committee on Tuesday. Ranking Member Obernolte was joined in introducing the bill late last week by Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA), Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-OK), and Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX). 

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) partnered with California law enforcement to shut down major cartel-tied illegal marijuana grow operations in Southern California on Tuesday. Federal involvement in the fight against dangerous illegal grow operations comes directly following a request made by U.S.

U.S. Congressman Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia) introduced legislation recently to establish career pathways in computer science within the federal government. H.R.

Congressional Western Caucus Members participated in a policy roundtable on Thursday hosted by the Western Caucus Foundation at the Young America's Foundation's Ronald Reagan Center in Santa Barbara, California to discuss important issues facing the West.

U.S. Congressman Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia) introduced the H.R. 3649, the Mono Lake Kutadika’a Paiute Tribal Recognition Act on Tuesday to grant federal recognition to the Mono Lake Kutzadika’a tribe as a distinct Native American Tribe. The legislation, originally introduced by former Rep.

An Orange County judge rejected the relocation order of sexually violent predator Lawtis Rhoden to Twentynine Palms on Thursday afternoon in a major victory for the Twentynine Palms Community. U.S. Congressman Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia) and several other local officials testified in a court hearing on Friday, May 22 against the tentative relocation order.

On Friday, Representative Jay Obernolte (R-Hesperia) presented the following testimony at the placement hearing for Orange County sexually violent predator Lawtis Rhoden who has tentatively been ordered to relocate into Twentynine Palms:

May 21, 2021

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WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA), Ranking Member on the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee at the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, introduced H.R. 3284, the Next Generation Computing Research and Development Act, to accelerate advanced scientific computing programs at the Department of Energy (DOE).