{"id":2230584,"date":"2024-04-25T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-wants-to-make-appliance-week-happen\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:18:32","slug":"house-gop-wants-to-make-appliance-week-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-wants-to-make-appliance-week-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP aims to create &#8216;appliance week"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-gop-wants-to-make-appliance-week-happen%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2230584&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, the White House&#8217;s repeated\u200d attempts to launch &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-candidate-will-forgo-salary-if-elected-governor\/\" title=\"Virginia Candidate Will Forgo Salary if Elected Governor\">infrastructure week<\/a>&#8221; \u2063in Congress failed, becoming a \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-america-social-media-lights-up-when-national-christmas-tree-falls\/\" title=\"Social media buzzes as National Christmas Tree topples in 'Biden's America\">social media joke<\/a>. Now, House Republicans&#8217; &#8220;Appliance Week&#8221; faces a similar fate, delayed due\u2062 to a drone exchange. \u2062Despite foreign policy\u200b distractions, appliance-themed bills like the SUDS Act aim to bypass large costs and gain bipartisan support. Throughout \u200cDonald Trump&#8217;s tenure, the repeated \u2062efforts \u2064by the \u200dWhite House to kick off &#8220;infrastructure week&#8221; in Congress failed, leading \u2063to jests\u2064 on social media. Presently,\u2062 House \u200bRepublicans&#8217; &#8220;Appliance Week&#8221; encounters \u2064a comparable \u200dsetback, \u2062delayed because of a drone\u2064 exchange. Despite distractions \u200bin foreign policy, bills like the \u200dSUDS Act push to avoid significant costs and\u2063 secure bipartisan backing.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> presidency, \u201cinfrastructure week\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congress<\/a> was a thing that the White House kept trying and failing to make happen. It became a running joke on social media because Trump never did manage to persuade lawmakers to put the desired $1 trillion infrastructure spending package on his desk.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>House Republicans\u2019<\/a> \u201cAppliance Week\u201d will meet a similar fate. It has already been delayed once. That delay was due to an exchange of drones between Iran and Israel the weekend before American Tax Day.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP House leadership gave us what they called a \u201crobust foreign policy week\u201d instead, culminating in legislation that gives money to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan and attempts to force the Chinese firm that owns TikTok to divest. President Joe Biden signed that package into law faster than you can say, \u201cFour more years, pause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Had foreign policy not taken center stage, the House was set to vote on a series of creatively titled appliance-themed bills. These include the Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act, aka the SUDS Act, the Refrigerator Freedom Act, the Liberty in Laundry Act, and the Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act.<\/p>\n<p>The bills are short enough for any member of Congress to read in full. The SUDS Act is six pages long and mostly intelligible to the layman. It orders that the \u201cSecretary of Energy may not prescribe a new or an amended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-wants-thomas-edisons-incandescent-light-bulbs-gone-by-2023\/\" title=\"Biden Wants Thomas Edison\u2019s Incandescent Light Bulbs Gone By 2023\">energy conservation standard<\/a> for a covered product that is a dishwasher \u2026 unless the Secretary of Energy determines that the prescription and imposition of such energy conservation standard is technologically feasible and economically justified\u201d and then goes on to add some teeth to those terms.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike infrastructure week legislation, these appliance bills don\u2019t carry a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-pelosis-new-house-rules-package-silences-the-voice-of-republican-minority\/\" title=\"Speaker Pelosi\u2019s new House rules package silences the voice of Republican minority\">large price tag<\/a>, which makes holding an eventual do-over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-shot-down-nearly-half-of-the-drones-iran-launched-in-israel-attack\/\" title=\"The US successfully intercepted almost half of the drones Iran deployed during the attack on Israel\">appliance week<\/a> that much easier.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive critics were predictably dismissive of the GOP\u2019s delayed legislative push. The <em>New Republic<\/em> reported that the bills had \u201cdrawn widespread scorn\u201d and charged that \u201cRepublicans have yet to encounter a household object they won\u2019t try to turn into a culture war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few House Republicans have gone on the record with appliance week skepticism, though not about the substance of the bills. \u201cWith any material vote, we\u2019ve relied predominantly on Democrat votes,\u201d House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) lamented to <em>Axios<\/em>. \u201cAnd then we want to pass messaging bills, that have no future in the Senate, to show what we stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At present, any appliance week bills that pass the House look like a dead letter in the Democratic-controlled Senate, but so are most bills. This is true even in the best of legislative times.<\/p>\n<p>The 118th Congress, with its slim GOP majority in the House and narrow Democratic majority in the Senate, has had just 179 pieces of legislation \u201cenacted,\u201d according to data from GovTrack.us, for a 1% clearance rate. (These numbers include smaller bills that were later bundled into larger bills.)<\/p>\n<p>That is a low percentage to become law. Yet, historically, the bills-introduced-to-bills-passed ratio has always been a high bar to clear. The previous Congress, the 117th, had 1,234 pieces of legislation enacted. Even with that far more activist Congress and sympathetic president, only 7% of bills introduced made it into law.<\/p>\n<p>The message that Republicans are selling with these bills is also broadly popular with their own voters in an election year. The Trump administration began to loosen regulations of home appliances that had made the appliances both more costly and less effective. Biden\u2019s bureaucracy reversed the Trump liberalizations and then some.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has proposed more stringent standards, and made moves to constrain sources of heat and electricity that power those appliances, which tends to further drive up the price. Federal agencies have targeted natural gas stoves and furnaces, dishwashers, washing machines, and other devices.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Such actions can be unpopular with voters even in deep blue states such as New York. Last year, a Siena College poll found that Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s efforts to \u201cEssentially prohibit all fossil fuel-burning equipment \u2014 including stoves \u2014 for new single-family homes by the end of 2025 and for all new construction by the end of 2028\u201d were not favored. Local respondents opposed the regulations by 53% to 39%.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a message House Republicans will likely continue to push through Election Day, even if chances for enacting \u201cAppliance Week\u201d proposals into law are near zero.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, &#8220;infrastructure week&#8221; in Congress was a recurring attempt by the White House to push for a $1 trillion infrastructure spending package. The repeated failures turned it into a social media punchline. 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