Political Quotes

“My amendment would prohibit funding for the Biden administration's rule titled, ``Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Manufactured Housing.'' It would prohibit the Department of Energy from carrying out regulations that increase the regulatory burdens. This is a topic that I am very familiar with. I met with the manufacturers of some manufactured housing. For those who don't know, manufactured housing is built in an enclosed environment. What they have done with the passage of the regulations would put the most affordable housing out of business, like changing the rafter sizes from 2 by 2s, 2 by 4s to 2 by 10s or 2 by 8s, 2 by 6s. It is just not practically feasible to do this. Who would be against the title of an energy conservation program? What this does is much deeper than what this title says. In May 2022, the DOE developed the energy standards for manufactured homes that would raise the price of new manufactured homes by, in total, thousands of dollars, which would be passed onto the homeowners from cost increases that is far in excess of any return that they would get from the energy savings. Since then, the costs of these DOE standards have become even higher as mortgage rates have increased dramatically. The standards would limit consumer choices and severely threaten the affordability of new manufactured homes, and this is the most affordable home that the country is now putting on the market.…”