Save Our Gas Stoves Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Chairman, about 1 out of 3 Wisconsinites have a gas stove, and about 40 percent nationwide do. There is some name-calling over there as far as what the parties stand for.

The gas stove is about three times cheaper than the electric stove. The Republican Party is the party of the working class. The party that pays attention to what their energy bill is. There is another class of people out there: The rich Hollywood types, the high-tech billionaires, the well-paid college professors who don't have to worry how much they pay for electricity.

As a result, that side feels very good when a bill is passed where they restrict what the hoi polloi can do. Also, they don't have to worry about the welfare class because they will give stuff perhaps to the welfare class to make up the difference. But they won't help the middle class. And that is who the Republican Party tries to look out for. The average guy who knows exactly what he is paying in his energy bill.

Mr. Chair, I ask that we leave the working class alone.

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