Providing for Consideration of H.R. Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, and Providing for Consideration of H.R. Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2024

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Mr. LANGWORTHY. Madam Speaker, the Biden administration, through the Department of Energy, is making life harder for Americans and jeopardizing our energy security.

Through gradually increasing efficiency standards, rebate programs, and other regulatory carrot-and-stick measures, this administration is determined to take perfectly reliable, affordable, and efficient appliances off the market and out of reach for ordinary Americans.

The regulatory agenda being carried out at the Biden Department of Energy is a death-by-a-thousand-cuts strategy that will leave Americans sincerely worried about how they will be able to afford to heat their homes in the coming years.

From gas stoves and furnaces to air-conditioners, the Biden administration is forcing Americans away from appliances and technologies that genuinely work and pushing them toward more expensive and less available options.

Time and again, the left tells us that this hardship is the price we all must pay for a so-called greener and cleaner future. In fact, these draconian measures do little to achieve that future while depriving Americans of a quality of life we once took for granted.

Madam Speaker, I am proud to support the underlying legislation, H.R. 4394, because it will put the brakes on the out-of-control, out-of- touch regulatory state that has been unleashed on the American people by the Biden administration.

This legislation rescinds billions of dollars in wasteful spending from the poorly named Inflation Reduction Act that was intended to force Americans away from affordable and reliable appliances toward more expensive and less reliable options.

Madam Speaker, I strongly encourage my colleagues to support this rule and this underlying legislation today.

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