Several conservative measures, including a measure to reinstate pilots who lost their jobs after not taking the COVID vaccine, failed in the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday during debate on a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

An amendment that would have required airlines to reinstate pilots who were fired or lost their job because they did not want to take the COVID vaccine failed 141-294 in the House. Eighty-three Republicans voted against the measure, and Maine Democrat Jared Golden voted for the measure. 

Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) offered the amendment on the House floor after it was filed by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

“Hundreds of pilots were forced out of their livelihoods over the past several years for their refusal to get COVID vaccine,” Greene said on Wednesday. “They were denied medical freedom to decide whether they should take the experimental COVID vaccine or lose their job.” 

The full extent of how many pilots were fired or quit over vaccine mandates remains unclear, but some airlines strictly enforced the policy, with United Airlines firing hundreds of employees who chose to remain unvaccinated. 

Other Republican-backed amendments to the FAA bill also failed, including one provision which would have made Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg disclose his travel on private jets paid for by taxpayers. Buttigieg has been criticized in recent months over his use of private planes.

“This week, I was proud to fight for taxpayers & transparency with my amendment to obtain Secretary Buttigieg’s private jet records. Air travel has become chaotic in our country, including the first FAA full ground stoppage since 9/11. I’ll never stop fighting against the Swamp!” Miller tweeted. 

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With 10 Republicans voting against the amendment, it failed 216-219, including Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), Reps. Troy Balderson (R-OH), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Garret Graves (R-LA), David Joyce (R-OH), Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA), Marcus Molinaro (R-NY), and Brandon Williams (R-NY). Three Democrats — Reps. Katie Porter and Ted Lieu of California and Yadira Caraveo of Colorado — voted for the amendment.

A spokesperson for Balderson said that the vote against the amendment was by accident and that he intended to file to get his vote changed. 

Another amendment that was shot down was by freshman Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles, who attempted to pass an amendment “to clarify that a study of turbulence should include a focus on weather conditions rather than climate change since weather is the proximate cause.”

Ultimately, the House voted 351-69 to reauthorize the FAA for five more years appropriating billions of dollars for airport funding, also addressing runway safety and ticket refunds in the bill. 

Actor Samuel L. Jackson claims he would have been an Oscar contender for his work on the 1996 drama “A Time to Kill” if certain scenes hadn’t been cut from the movie.

Jackson told Vulture during a July interview that some of the hardest-hitting scenes from the film, which was based on a John Grisham novel by the same name, were ultimately left on the cutting room floor.

“But also the things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar,” the actor said. “‘Really, motherf***ers? You just took that sh** from me?’ My first day working on that film, I did a speech in a room with an actor and the whole f***ing set was in tears when I finished. I was like, ‘Okay. I’m on the right page.’”

The 73-year-old star has appeared in highly acclaimed films over the years but has never won an Academy Award.

Jackson has a theory on why the scenes were deleted, claiming it was because they were too good and would have elevated the status of his supporting role. 

“That sh** is not in the movie!” he continued. “And I know why it’s not. Because it wasn’t my movie, and they weren’t trying to make me a star. That was one of the first times that I saw that sh** happen. There are things that I’ve done in other movies where I said, ‘Wait a minute. Why did you take that moment out of the movie?’ Because the moment, in that movie, it’s bigger than the movie.”

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“A Time to Kill” also stars Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, and Matthew McConaughey. Jackson plays Carl Lee Hailey, a father accused of killing two white men who abducted, raped, and violently beat his 10-year-old daughter. The film received mixed reviews and was a commercial success, bringing in $152 million at the worldwide box office.

“In ‘A Time to Kill,’ when I kill those guys, I kill them because my daughter needs to know that those guys are not on the planet anymore and they will never hurt her again — that I will do anything to protect her. That’s how I played that character throughout,” Jackson told the outlet.

“And there were specific things we shot, things I did to make sure that she understood that, but in the editing process, they got taken out. And it looked like I killed those dudes and then planned every move to make sure that I was going to get away with it. When I saw it, I was sitting there like, ‘What the f***?’”