Biden speaks during the United Auto Workers union conference at the Marriott Marquis in Washington on Jan. 24, 2024. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
"I have fought every step of the way to prevent egregious rules from taking effect. These regulations will impose significant financial burdens on small businesses, which will have to absorb major upgrade costs to meet these new, aggressive standards," Bice told Fox News Digital.
She conceded it "sounds small," but argued it would place an oversized regulatory burden on small businesses across the country.
"The impact of this regulation would cost small businesses over a billion dollars while only reducing energy use by 6%," Bice said.
CHRIS WRIGHT CONFIRMED SECRETARY OF ENERGY
Reps. Jared Golden, right, and Don Davis in Cannon Tunnel on April 30, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
They have a mechanism to do so in Congress via joint resolutions of disapproval, designed as a legislative branch check on executive branch regulatory rule-making.
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Bice’s resolution got support from six Democrats, while Goldman’s got five.
Reps. Don Davis, D-N.C., Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, Adam Gray, D-Calif., and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., all voted for both. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, voted for Bice's but not Goldman's.
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