Electric utility transformers provide a service that plays a pivotal role in the lives of Americans. Right now, there is a critical shortage of those transformers that enable America's electric grid. This shortage is keeping homes from being completed and hindering grid reliability as power utilities, co-ops, and energy producers try to keep up with demand. Why is the Department of Energy hurting American consumers more by making a transformer shortage worse? Mr. Speaker, that is why I rise as a proud supporter of the Protecting America's Distribution Transformer Supply Chain Act, which will delay the Department of Energy from imposing unnecessary mandates. Our power sector, builders, and contractors need a ready supply of electric transformers. We must stop the administration from turning the lights out on American families, including my constituents in Idaho. ____________________
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