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Kenny Stancil

Manchin teams up with Cruz on gas stoves

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia on Thursday introduced legislation that would prevent a federal agency from banning gas stoves.

Cruz and Manchin's bill to preempt the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) from banning gas stoves —titled the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act and described by progressive advocacy group Food & Water Watch as "absurd" — comes even though the agency says it has no plans to implement such a prohibition.

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