GOP bill to keep Biden's 'hands off' Americans' home appliances passes House

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The House passed a measure connected Tuesday aimed astatine blocking the Biden medication from banning mundane location appliances that tally connected earthy gas. 

The Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act, which passed 212 to 195, is 1 facet of a sweeping measure targeting the Department of Energy (DOE) introduced by Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz.

The measure would unit the DOE to see the cost-effectiveness of immoderate caller argumentation standards, including however immoderate updates affecting location appliances would deed low-income families, and would mandate that the section origin successful the full-life rhythm costs of those appliances earlier issuing caller guidance.

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President Biden's greenish vigor policies person been nether occurrence by the House GOP for months. (Getty Images)

"I americium saddened that we would request specified a bill," Lesko told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "However, arsenic we person experienced nether this administration, the Department of Energy has unleashed an avalanche of caller regulations for household products, including stoves, dishwashers, washing machines, showers, toilets, h2o heaters, aerial conditioners, vigor pumps, and furnaces."

She added, "No authorities bureaucrat should ever strategy to instrumentality distant Americans’ appliances successful the sanction of a extremist biology agenda."

House Republicans person pinned precocious vigor costs under President Biden arsenic a apt anemic spot for Democrats successful the November wide elections. 

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Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., introduced the measure that passed the House Tuesday. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOP lawmakers person blamed Biden's clime docket for those rising costs, teeing up a litany of bills aimed astatine stopping the DOE from pushing assorted restrictions that would impact products Americans trust connected each day.

Last year, they passed Lesko's Save Our Gas Stoves Act, though it's not apt to get a ballot successful the Democrat-controlled Senate.

She joined House GOP leaders astatine their play property league connected Tuesday morning, telling reporters, "My constituents successful the northbound and northwest vale of Maricopa County, Arizona, bash not privation this authorities interference successful their homes and lives. I cognize that millions of Americans astir the state consciousness the aforesaid way."

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Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm speaks during a quality briefing. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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A projected overhaul of vigor ratio standards issued by the DOE successful February of past twelvemonth would person taken up to 50% of state stoves disconnected the marketplace aft it was acceptable to instrumentality effect successful 2027. 

The connection earned wide blimpish backlash. It yet was not 1 of the finalized plans for updating vigor ratio standards announced by the Biden medication successful January of this year.

Elizabeth Elkind is simply a authorities newsman for Fox News Digital starring sum of the House of Representatives. Previous integer bylines seen astatine Daily Mail and CBS News.

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