Let There Be Light!: Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban

By Stephen Dinan

Migraine inducing CFL's will not be forced at gunpoint... not yet at least! - ChrisCongressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs beginning next year.

That agreement is tucked inside the massive 1,200-page spending bill that funds the government through the rest of this fiscal year, and which both houses of Congress will vote on Friday. Mr. Obama is expected to sign the bill, which heads off a looming government shutdown.

Congressional Republicans dropped almost all of the policy restrictions they tried to attach to the bill, but won inclusion of the light bulb provision, which prevents the Obama administration from carrying through a 2007 law that would have set energy efficiency standards that effectively made the traditional light bulb obsolete.

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Posted: Dec 18 2011, 2:18 PM

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So as it turns out, people (including me) didn't need to stock their cabinets full of incandescent bulbs after all. Well, better safe than sorry, I guess.
Congress should have done something about Obama's insurance mandate. Doesn't look like they want to touch that one.

Chris

Posted: Dec 18 2011, 2:49 PM

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I too was right about to buy a bunch, I say consider it an inflation hedge!

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