Two Progressive Representatives Chart A Course Forward For America

This story is about political reform legislation, not home energy upgrades, so it doesn't have direct implications for your house or any rebate programs. Two members of Congress, Greg Landsman of Ohio and Josh Riley of New York, have introduced a bill called the Drain the Swamp Act. It's a broad package of anti-corruption measures rather than anything tied to energy efficiency, heating and cooling systems, or home rebates.

The bill's provisions include banning the President, Vice President, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and their immediate families from owning or trading stocks, banning political betting by government officials, setting 18-year term limits for the Supreme Court and Congress, and overturning the Citizens United campaign finance ruling. It also calls for banning corporate PACs and dark money in politics, ending partisan gerrymandering, enacting the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and adding new ethics rules for the Supreme Court, among other changes.

None of this affects rebate programs, weatherization funding, or other homeowner energy incentives you might be tracking. It's a proposed bill, meaning it would need to move through Congress before any of it became law. If you're watching for changes to home energy programs like HEAR (the federal rebate program for electrification upgrades) or state weatherization funding, this legislation isn't connected to those and doesn't change anything about them right now.