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Freshman California Congressman Jay Obernolte says in first floor speech arguing against a rules package for the 117th Congress that although he shared concerns about the motion recommit an equally troubling aspect was to upend nearly 30 years of tradition by exempting legislation that can be tied in any way in response to climate change or the coronavirus crisis to pay go requirements requiring a pay for solutions, climate change in coronavirus serious issues but responsible when debating those issues to consider effects of the national debt and an budget deficit, the Congressional Budget Office indicated for the first time in 2020 since World War II the national debt exceeded 100 percent of gross domestic product, so to fail to consider the effects of the solutions was in abdication of responsibility to constituents.