Upton is blocking the bill ? Surprise!
W also had his brain lapses.
We have no leadership in the House NONE! They could make a law for us use to Kerosene lanterns and it would pass!
Stock up people. We have a useless congress.
Ban Congress. It’s a waste of energy.
If they cannot do this, they cannot do ANYTHING.
If they WILL not do this, they either didn’t understand or are purposefully ignoring the message of the Tea Party and the 2010 election.
Stop spending! Stop regulating! Get the hell out of our lives!
But when one informs himself of the weirdo and perhaps dangerous lighting situation we're going to be in, it's very illuminating indeed.
Let's remember we're activists, not keyboard commandos. Please freep your representative on this ASAP.
IMO, the spineless, tone-deaf Republicans in the House, even the new freshman hot-shots, are going to disappoint us big-time in issues large and small.
Watt is the real reason for the inertia on the light bulb repeal bill, hmmmmm?
Leni
This is all academic anyways since nobody is going to be able to afford electricity by the time the law kicks in.
apparently, they think not repealing it before the election will help them and then they will do it. Write and tell them it’s a strategy with which you disagree.
Go Joe Barton !
Thanks for posting this and I urge everyone to call this moron Upton.
Let me tell you, I did call his office a while ago on this and the person I spoke to knew nothing about it.
So, this is why I call him a moron.
So, let’s start ringing the phones, because we don’t want to lose our good lightbulbs.
Not smart. At all.
Too little, too late....
Most of the U.S. light bulb production plants have now been shut down thanks to this law, at the loss of 50,000+ mostly union jobs, and the environmentally unsound CFL production moved to China and Mexico.
I can’t wait to hear the Democrats screaming for BILLIONS in the next two decades to clean the Mercury from this boondoggle out of America’s landfills.
“Another factor to consider: Incandescent bulbs are made in the United States. . .”
Too late. GE closed down the last US light bulb manufacturing plant at the end of 2010. Thomas Edison must be turning over in his grave.
The new energy efficient CFL bulbs that replace the incandescent bulbs were also invented in the US but production is all overseas. So much for Obama’s promise of millions of green energy jobs in America.
The issue here is not the intelligence of Congress. It is what corporations or organizations are pushing Congress behind the scenes to keep the ban on incandescent bulbs? Congress today responds to the money, not to the wishes of the American people.
This is a Great example of just how poor our current Republican Leadership is.
It appears the main job of a Republican in Congress is to “reach across the aisle to our good friends” and “compromise”.
Upton is and has always been a lying, super RINO. And Boehner is not a hell of a lot better.
Upton co-sponsored the original bill banning incandescent bulbs.
A lot of us said that it would be a travesty if he was made chair of this committee.
But it was his turn, and the RINOs prevailed.
He promised that he would change his ways when he ran for election. But since when can you believe a promise from a corrupt crook like Upton, or from Boehner, the guy who saw to his appointment?
No doubt they both got paid off by GE, which is making compact flourescents in China.
The last major Incandescent factory in the US closed in Sept. 2010.
As usual with our gubment. Too little, too late. I have stocked up on a lifetime of icandescent bulbs and will no longer purches the toxic, short lasting, and expensive mercury bulbs.