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Madam Speaker, Claims · 89 wordscommunities throughout the Nation are seeing unprecedented growth in electricity demand, driven in large part by data centers and other energy-intensive facilities.That growing demand is already having a direct impact on communities like those that I represent in the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos, where, after 4 years of severe inflation under President Biden, residents are being put in a position where they could end up footing the energy bill for new data centers.1Off pointHidden agencyThe rapid growth of these facilities requires unprecedented new investments in our electric grid.Reasoning · 22 wordsWhile the grid capacity will catch up eventually, the short-term costs of those investments must not be passed on to families, seniors, Claims · 30 wordsand small businesses, many of whom don’t want data centers in their communities in the first place.That is why I am proud to cosponsor the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act, 2Reasoning · 20 wordsbecause large energy consumers who create the demand for new energy infrastructure should pay their fair share of the cost.Claims · 21 wordsWe can maintain local control of development activities while also protecting existing ratepayers, and that is exactly what this legislation does.Thanks · 10 wordsI thank Representative Evans for his partnership on this legislation, 3ThanksOff pointThe ask · 11 wordsand I urge all of my colleagues to support H.R.9340.4
