Two Florida Republicans who sit on the U.S. House Small Business Committee—U.S. Reps. Aaron Bean and Maria Elvira Salazar–sent a letter to U.S. Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm on her “proposed regulatory standards on ceiling fan manufacturers.”

Joining other Republicans on the committee, the Florida Republicans laid out their objections to the proposal.

“The Department of Energy submitted a proposed rule for comment in June 2023 concerning new energy conservation standards on ceiling fan manufacturers,” Salazar’s office noted. “This proposed rule would decrease the maximum estimated energy consumption permissible for large diameter and belt driven ceiling fans. This rule would require numerous small business fan manufacturers to redesign their products and may put between 10 and 30 percent of small business ceiling fan manufacturers out of business.

“This bureaucratic rule will cost and impose severe hardship on Miami small business owners who are already seeing their livelihoods driven down by inflation, supply chain issues, and burdensome regulation,” Salazar’s office added.

“Small businesses in Miami are hurting from the Biden administration’s cruel and unruly regulatory agenda,” said Salazar. “Biden’s Department of Energy is proposing rules that would put thousands of ceiling fan manufacturers across my district and the country out of business. Make no mistake – Biden’s energy agenda is anti-Miami and anti-America.”