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“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 5758, the Ceiling Fan Improvement Act. This legislation will update the energy efficiency standards for ceiling fans manufactured after January 21 of this year. We are here today because the existing energy and efficiency standards for ceiling fans was insufficient to meet the characteristics of ceiling fans being manufactured. Specifically, the energy conservation standards finalized in January 2017 didn't properly account for the different types of air flow of large ceiling fans. Therefore, the result of not changing this law could be the removal of large ceiling fans from the market because they won't be in compliance. This issue is a great example of how now nuanced and challenging some of these issues and topics can be here in Congress. Thanks to the leadership of my good friend, Congressman Guthrie, and that of Chairwoman Schakowsky, we are now one step closer to getting this fix across the finish line. Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleagues on the Committee on Energy and Commerce for their work on this legislation and for the bipartisan efforts to get it here, and I urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation.”