Political Quotes

“I thank my friend, Mr. Bilirakis, for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong support of this bill. Mr. Armstrong brings forward a really important bill that follows with a number of other pieces of legislation you are seeing on the floor. Tomorrow, you will see Mrs. Lesko's bill dealing with the same issue, the same idea that the Federal Government wants to ban gas stoves. Mr. Chairman, most Americans are looking all across the country and saying that inflation is still skyrocketing for families and that energy costs are skyrocketing for families. You are paying 50 percent more at the pump when you fill up your car. By the way, they want to ban the combustion engine, not through a congressional act, but through unelected bureaucrat regulations to get rid of gasoline-powered cars. It is all part of this government control agenda that we are seeing from this administration. It seems like in every single department of the Biden administration--the CFPB here, the Department of Energy over there, and EPA in another place--they are trying to tell people what they can and can't do with their lives--what kind of stove you can use in your house, for goodness' sake. First of all, just look at the premise of what they are trying to do--to ban the gas stove, which means you have to then use an electric stove. Maybe a coal stove they would support, I don't know. If you are choosing between a gas stove and an electric stove, we already know the gas stove is cheaper.…”