When I heard that they were going to mandate... these mercury bulbs in every home in America... Has anybody looked at the EPA recommendations?

We are very pleased that you included in S. 398 the consensus agreement establishing for the first time an efficiency standard for heat pump pool heaters.

I would not that the Federal Government did not outlaw eight track cassettes.

this law was not very well vetted out in the public; they were going to put these mercury bulbs in every home, in every school in America, in hospitals.

I guess a free people should be able to make that decision without the government saying you will put this kind of a bulb in your home.

I guarantee you, that is not gonna happen.

If legislators in a state like California want to force a light bulb mandate on its citizens, that's fine by me.

It is the sort of 'Washington knows better' approach that was soundly rejected by the American people.

People in Idaho are just going nuts and they are astonished that the federal government is telling them what kind of light bulbs they have to put in their home. Where's this country gone?

Whenever I hear about imperfections in the marketplace I hate hearing that because I'm a free market guy, an open market guy.

It gives consumers the option to decide what works best for them and avoids that one-size-fits-all approach that Washington should reject.

Rather than allowing members of Congress to dictate what light bulbs must be used in every American's home, my legislation allows the market to work.