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A Republican lawmaker has proposed an amendment to an appropriations bill that would effectively ban Environmental Protection Agency employees from flying around the country on the taxpayer’s dime.

North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson put forward an amendment barring “funds made available by this Act may be used may be used to pay the costs of any officer or employee of the [EPA] for official travel by airplane.”

As noted by Bloomberg reporter Anthony Adragna, it would basically make it so no EPA employee could fly on an airplane — unless of course they paid for it themselves.

Family members of the late Edna Lanier gathered at Lanier Hardware Thursday for a brief ceremony accepting congressional remarks from Rep. Richard Hudson on Lanier and her lasting legacy.

On Hudson’s behalf, Chris Carter, district director for the congressman, presented Lanier’s children Gail Lanier and Ann Easter with a copy of the remarks read by Hudson on the House floor May 13.