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Better Use of Light Bulbs Act Fails in House
house.gov ^ | July 12, 2011

Posted on 07/12/2011 7:28:45 PM PDT by ejdrapes



TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; bhoenergy; bulbact; lightbulbs
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To: YellowRoseofTx

Then they need to redo this the rigth way.et’s start demanding they do this tomorrow!


81 posted on 07/12/2011 9:31:03 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: YellowRoseofTx

Then they need to redo this the rigth way.Let’s start demanding they do this tomorrow!


82 posted on 07/12/2011 9:31:12 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: mrsmith

Thank you!

He cited the 10th Amendment? Now I think I like him even better, but I’m wondering whose idea the unconstitutional language was, and why it was included.


83 posted on 07/12/2011 9:38:11 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: ejdrapes
"I don't think it will go anywhere," said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).

Ladies and gentlemen, your Democrat Party, shipping jobs overseas.

84 posted on 07/12/2011 9:42:25 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: BobL

Amazing, to be on a 2/3 vote for light bulbs thread and you somehow inject a defamation toward Perry.

Mighty nifty stretch you have there.


85 posted on 07/12/2011 9:50:52 PM PDT by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: oblomov

It was set up so it had to pass by a 2/3 margin, so it “won”, but lost. Why was it set up that way? Who knows, I give up?


86 posted on 07/12/2011 10:00:22 PM PDT by mighty atlas
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To: maggief

He likes a beer now and again as well. :)


87 posted on 07/13/2011 1:54:36 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: freeandfreezing
Well, I wonder if all those lawyers with the 800 numbers need a new victim to soak. Seems CF manufactures would fit the bill nicely.

In the meantime, I intend to make sure the word about Tom Reed's vote gets out.

88 posted on 07/13/2011 6:15:57 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: dusttoyou

“Amazing, to be on a 2/3 vote for light bulbs thread and you somehow inject a defamation toward Perry.

Mighty nifty stretch you have there.”

Naa, it was just the first thing that came to my mind. The entire Republican base (except me*) wants these light bulb standards overturned, and the Republicans decide to make that ONE LAW require a 2/3s vote, which they knew they couldn’t win. We had practically the IDENTICAL thing happen here at the end of our Special Session - some new rule to require a supermajority - and somehow the stuff that Perry didn’t really want, just didn’t get through.

*I have thousands of incandescents. I plan to make a killing on them on E-Bay, but I don’t what to do if the Republicans overturn this law.


89 posted on 07/13/2011 6:32:09 AM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: ejdrapes

Time to restart my hoarding campaign.


90 posted on 07/13/2011 8:16:41 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Member Emeritus of Vitriolics Anonymous.)
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To: BobL

If nobama is “da man” again in 2012, you reckon you will be able to sell incands on Ebay?

They’ll be like Freon 12, smuggled from Mexico.

Personally, I have no problem with LED lights, flouresences yes I don’t like for a number of reasons. Just don’t want some buttbrain in DC telling me I can not have incands. They want to save electricity turn off the millions of yard lights.

When LEDs get priced right and guaranteed to last 20 years (give me a non-revocable Letter of Credit to present with any failed LED) and I’ll pay a bit more. Main issue with LEDs is the electronics, not the LED itself. Lightning or crappy power can wreck LED electronics in a second and I am sure the current warranty has fine print regarding these effects.


91 posted on 07/13/2011 8:55:57 AM PDT by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: maggief
"Hold muh beer while I take a whiz and kill that lightbulb thing."
92 posted on 07/13/2011 11:18:17 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: BobL
the Republicans decide to make that ONE LAW require a 2/3s vote, which they knew they couldn’t win.

Ain't that a pisser?

I do not know what makes me angrier. That Boehner set it up that way or that he thinks we are too stupid to know what he is doing.

I wonder what would happened if we took to the street in protest those damned lightbulbs in hand. "Whoops! I dropped it."

93 posted on 07/13/2011 11:23:42 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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94 posted on 07/13/2011 11:37:52 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list.)
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