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H.R. 4626: Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 4626119th CongressEnergy

Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act

Sponsored by Rep. Rick W. Allen (R-GA) · 0 active

Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedFeb 24, 2026
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Don’t Mess With My Home Appliances Act

This bill modifies the process by which the Department of Energy (DOE) issues or revises energy conservation standards for consumer products such as household appliances, including by requiring DOE to consider additional factors related to the cost and availability of such products.

First, the bill allows DOE to amend an energy conservation standard for a consumer product when needed rather than by a deadline.

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The bill also allows DOE to grant a petition to revoke or amend energy conservation standards if the standards (1) result in additional costs to consumers, (2) do not result in significant conservation of energy or water, (3) are not technologically feasible, and (4) result in a product (e.g., gas stoves) not being commercially available in the United States to all consumers.

Additionally, the bill modifies the criteria used to prescribe new or amended energy conservation standards, including by establishing new criteria for determining whether a standard is economically justified.

The bill establishes disclosure requirements for DOE meetings with entities that have (1) ties to China or the Chinese Communist Party; (2) produced studies regarding, or advocated for, regulations or policy to limit, restrict, or ban the use of any type of energy; and (3) applied for or received federal funds.

The bill also prohibits DOE from prescribing new or revised energy conservation standards for distribution transformers.

Finally, the bill allows DOE to prescribe certain new or amended energy and water conservation standards for clothes washers and dishwashers.

How the projections held up

Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.

House

On PassagePassed217 yea, 190 nayFebruary 24, 2026 · Roll call 76

How members in each band voted on this House vote, by their projection before the vote
BandBand before the vote	VotedVoted yea or nay	BrokeBroke with party	Share
Swing	51	7	14%
Middle	205	0	0%
Entrenched	148	0	0%
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Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Energy · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReferred to

Subjects

Administrative remedies
Consumer affairs
Department of Energy
Energy efficiency and conservation
Energy prices

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

46Swing 70–100
205Middle 30–70
180Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 67.0 (needs 5.0).

H.R. 4626 · Feb 24, 2026 · Roll call 436On PassageDon’t Mess With My Home Appliances Act
PassedSame bill×3.0
H.J.Res. 75 · Mar 27, 2025 · Roll call 77On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval of the rule submitted by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Commercial Refrigerators, Freezers, and Refrigerator-Freezers”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.J.Res. 24 · Mar 27, 2025 · Roll call 76On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Walk-In Coolers and Walk-In Freezers”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.J.Res. 42 · Mar 5, 2025 · Roll call 58On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program for Appliance Standards: Certification Requirements, Labeling Requirements, and Enforcement Provisions for Certain Consumer Products and Commercial Equipment”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.J.Res. 20 · Feb 27, 2025 · Roll call 52On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters”
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 7673 · Dec 10, 2024 · Roll call 1215On PassageLiberty in Laundry Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 7700 · Jul 9, 2024 · Roll call 1061On PassageStop Unaffordable Dishwasher Standards Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 7637 · Jul 9, 2024 · Roll call 1059On PassageRefrigerator Freedom Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0

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H.R. 6192 · May 7, 2024 · Roll call 902On PassageHands Off Our Home Appliances Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 6192 · May 7, 2024 · Roll call 900On Agreeing to the Amendment
Agreed toShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 1640 · Jun 14, 2023 · Roll call 267On PassageSave Our Gas Stoves Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 1640 · Jun 14, 2023 · Roll call 266On Agreeing to the Amendment
FailedShared subjects×1.0

Cosponsors

0 active

This bill has no cosponsors.

How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.