Do you want to keep your gas stove? New law would require Democrats to keep their 'hands off' kitchen appliances as they push Biden's green agenda

Republicans are waging war against the Biden administration's quest to outlaw gas-powered stoves and restrict home appliances, telling Democrats to keep their 'hands off.'

On Tuesday, the House passed the 'Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act,' 212 - 195, splitting largely on party lines. It is among the many appliance-related bills the GOP has planned for this Congress. 

The bill's passage is a direct rebuke to the Biden administration's attempt to restrict gas-powered stoves and other appliances in homes across America, and other green initiatives. 

Specifically, the proposed law, which will be sent to the Senate, amends existing policy to reform the Department of Energy's (DOE) procedures for issuing energy efficiency standards. 

Among the many reforms the bill makes, the most notable is the scaling back of the Secretary of Energy's ability to ban products based on fuel, essentially prohibiting bans on natural gas-powered products, like stoves.

The bill aims to restrict the Secretary of Energy's ability to ban or restrict appliances based on the type of fuel that they use to work, such as natural gas-powered stoves

Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., introduced the 'Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act' in November

The bill also requires the DOE to consider the cost to low-income households when determining new energy standards as well as eliminating unnecessary rule making requirements.

It would also establish minimum thresholds for energy and water saving standards before those new requirements are imposed.

'I am saddened that we even need a bill like this,' Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., who introduced the measure, said Tuesday morning at a press conference touting the legislation.

'However, as we have experienced under this administration, the Department of Energy has unleashed an avalanche of new regulations for household products including stoves, dishwashers, washing machines, showers, toilets, water heaters, air conditioners, heat pumps and furnaces.'

'No government bureaucrat should ever scheme to take away Americans' appliances in the name of a radical environmental agenda,' Lesko continued.

'Yet that is exactly what we've seen under the Biden administration.' 

The Arizona Republican previously led the charge in the House championing the 'Save Our Gas Stoves Act,' which passed the chamber in June 2023. 

The stove legislation has not been touched in the Senate since and still remains with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

At the time, Lesko said that Biden's policies would have outlawed nearly all gas stoves in operation across the U.S. 

'According to the Department of Energy's own technical report, 96 percent of the market share of gas stoves will not meet the DOE's new proposed rule,' she said.  'That is a 96 percent ban.'

The DOE finalized new rules for washing and drying machine energy standards in February

Rep. Debbie Lesko speaks during a news conference with House GOP leadership touting her 'Hands Off Our Home Appliances Act'

In recent years the Biden administration's DOE has floated many rule changes on everyday home appliances such as stoves, washing machines, water heaters and more to emissions. 

They've upset consumer advocacy groups, who argue that the restrictions will drive up costs and users who don't want to part with their beloved tools. 

'The pettiness of micromanaging consumer choices would be comical if it wasn't so destructive to Americans’ quality of life,' Will Hild, executive director of Consumers' Research, a consumer protection non-profit, told DailyMail.com of Biden's appliance initiatives.

'Biden's overbearing appliance regulations have made living essentials even more expensive in an economy where inflation is already destroying consumer purchasing power.'

'Far from protecting the environment, these regulations serve only to line the pockets of ESG elites who profit off of selling these so-called green appliances.'

And Republicans have a laundry list of other appliance-related acts coming down the pipeline. 

The House GOP is also considering the 'Liberty in Laundry Act,' the 'Clothes Dryers Reliability Act,' the 'Refrigerator Freedom Act,' the 'Affordable Air Conditioning Act,' and the 'Stop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act.' 

It is unclear when the remaining appliance acts will be brought to the floor for a vote, but its expected soon.