Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend my colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee--Mrs. Ellmers and Ms. DeGette, in particular--as well as all of my other colleagues who worked on H.R. 4444, the EPS Improvement Act of 2016. This bipartisan piece of legislation would exclude the drivers that power light-emitting diodes, commonly known as LEDs, and direct-current ceiling fans from DOE's energy conservation standards for external power supplies. Mr. Speaker, in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Congress directed DOE to establish conservation standards for external power supplies used to convert household electric current into DC current or lower voltage AC current. At the time, external power supplies were almost exclusively the kind of wall chargers used to power laptops, cell phones, and other similar consumer devices. {time} 1600 Mr. Speaker, in 2005, LED lighting was in its infancy stages. LED lamps were not even on the market then, nor were they available in 2007, when Congress amended the definition of external power supply in the Energy Independence Act of 2007. However, in just over a decade, Mr. Speaker, LED and other high- efficiency, solid-state lighting products have become widely available. These lights provide significant energy-efficiency cost savings to consumers when compared with traditional light bulbs.…”