Upcoming spending package has rider against gas stove ban

By Manuel Quiñones, Emma Dumain | 03/20/2024 01:37 PM EDT

It would limit rulemaking at the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks with reporters Wednesday after a press conference at the Capitol. Francis Chung/POLITICO

Spending legislation expected to emerge as soon as Wednesday will include a rider against gas stove rulemaking at the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Democrats and the White House have touted the final fiscal 2024 spending packages as including no “poison pill” riders. But Republicans are trumpeting some wins — the gas stove language among them.

House GOP leaders — including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) — shared some of their victories in a closed-door members’ meeting Wednesday morning.

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Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) confirmed to E&E News that gas stoves came up, something that stood out because “it was ludicrous to begin with for the administration to ban gas stoves.”

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