Posted on 07/13/2011 8:21:13 AM PDT by yoe
The House of Representatives voted to preserve a scheduled phase out of incandescent light bulbs Monday evening.
The Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act, would have rescinded efficiency standards for incandescent bulbs included in a 2007 energy bill.
233 members voted yes and 193 cast nay votes. But the House required a supermajority to approve this particular package. In this case, it would have needed 285 yea votes to pass.
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) voted present.
The measure gained support after the 2010 elections, as tea party Republicans seized on the prohibition as an example of government overreach.
The bill's sponsor, Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, says that the increased efficiency standards have the government picking winners and losers in the lighting market.
"To take off the market something that's cheap, effective, and average use costs two or three cents a week to use seems to me to be overkill by the federal government," Barton said of the move away from incandescent bulbs. Supporters of the bill also claim that the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs designed to replace incandescent bulbs are too expensive and don't work as well as their 19th century competitor."Here's the bottom line, those of us at a certain age, under a compact florescent bulb, we don't look as good as an incandescent bulb," said Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, "The American people should be able to choose what type of light bulb they use in their home. They should not be constrained to all the romance of a Soviet stairwell when they go home in the evening."
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Wait until restaurants, stadiums, function halls, schools, auditoriums, churches etc, have to be evacuated because a light bulb broke. What about Christmas lights? We put LED lights on the eight Christmas trees at our Parish Nativity scene. You can barely see them.
Obama would have vetoed this in any case.
Repeal of “the light bulb ban” cannot be seriously undertaken until 2013 at the earliest (presuming Obama is no longer in office by then, which is not yet a certainty).
The Pubbies can try again then.
Serious question to anyone reading this reply:
Just how much of the leftist agenda do you really believe has a chance of being reversed, so long as the ‘rats have the majority in the Senate and Obama in the White House?
It’s going to have to wait about two more years.
Just sayin’...
This is coming back up for a vote as it was postponed as per the Speaker. They needed 2/3 majority because it was rushed through for some stupid reason. It will pass and go to the Senate where the real debate will happen.
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Where it will be stopped again. Hoarders should keep on hoarding. You are right though that is will pass the house in a normal proceeding. On a whole I am pleasantly surprised that the 2010 House is remaining this faithful, but WHY did they elevate Boehner?!?!? How soon can this Michael Steele redux be jettisoned?
Another “Hello Sucker” moment.
Republicans planned this to fail.
The whole process was designed to make us rubes think they really wanted to do away with this Big Brother government mandate.
Now we are supposed to believe republicans made a valid attempt but were thwarted by democrats. The truth is that republicans made sure to process the bill so it required a 2/3 vote which they knew it would not get.
Republicans and democrats all milk contributions and payoffs from the same lobbyists and contributors.
The original bill was sponsored by a republican.
It was passed with the help of republican congressmen and senators.
It was signed into law by a republican president.
They really do not want to change it - they just want us to think they do.
I already did that in front of the city utility worker who handed me the two free CFLs. On my driveway, actually.
Posterboy for all the dork, einsatzgruppen wannabees in the Untied States of Amerika.
To be very honest, that may have been the reason, because Obama would simply VETO it. Until the 2012 elections, when there is a MAJOR cleaning out of the White House and Senate, with futher cleaning of the House, work to bring this bill up again.
Have a peek at the THREE PAGE cleanup guide. You can view it under the broken bulb here: http://www.epa.gov/cfl/cflcleanup-detailed.html
We’re on our own now...you can also forget about these people repealing Obamacare too.
Look for major hoarding of the old bulbs to take place.
Barton sponsored the bill to rescind the incandescent ban.
Why are you upset with him?
It was numbnutz like Bishop that didn't support it that need to be sent home.
That is why 2012 is looking more and more like a major political clean-up.
Maybe what we need is a “Light Bulb Party” of sorts.
The Founding Fathers would have never tolerated this from the British.
Thanks for that information.
No. Like FDR and gold, you'll simply have to turn in all your hoarded incandescent bulbs, or face severe penalties. ;)
Now, will he put the bill into Fred Upton's committee and hold him to his promise? or is it as dead as a burned out bulb?
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