Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act
Floor Speech
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Ms. McCLELLAN. Mr. Chair, I thank Mr. Pallone for his leadership.
I rise today to urge my colleagues to oppose the House Republicans' ridiculous Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act, which would strip away commonsense energy efficiency standards that will save our constituents hundreds of dollars every year on their utility bills and save $1 trillion and cut greenhouse gas pollution by over 2.5 billion metric tons over the next 30 years.
However, House Republicans want to put polluters over people by stoking fear that someone is coming after their household appliances. News flash: No one is coming after anyone's household appliances.
We should be focused on the issues that the American people want us to focus on. Indeed, none of my constituents nor a majority of the American people are clamoring for Congress to protect their household appliances.
Do you know what they are clamoring for? They are clamoring for Congress to do something about the fact that they have lost reproductive freedom and the ability to make healthcare decisions without interference from politicians since the Supreme Court gutted Roe v. Wade. Now over 40 percent of women of reproductive age live in a State with an abortion ban or extreme restrictions.
They want us to do something about the fact that barriers to their exercise of the right to vote have been put in place since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act.
They want us to do something about the fact that the impacts of climate change such as, sea level rise, increased temperatures, major storms increasing, and pollution is having an impact on their health, their businesses, their communities, and even our military readiness, as we heard from the Secretary of the Navy last week.
Democrats are fighting to put people over politics and address these issues that actually matter to the American people. I urge my Republican colleagues to do the same. Vote ``no'' on this bill, and let's get back to work.
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