Congress must also pursue greater transparency and regulation for data center projects, ensure local governments siting these projects coordinate with state and federal regulators that address the impact they have on energy demand and the environment and bring renewable energy sources and battery storage online in a much more significant way. I will continue to advocate for these and other policies that ensure our nation can meet its digital and energy needs without overburdening people, communities and our environment.
Continue advocating for stronger transparency and regulation of data center projects, coordination among local, state, and federal regulators, and expanded renewable energy and battery storage so digital and energy needs do not overburden people, communities, or the environment.
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“I voted in favor of four bills that take a crucial first step in ensuring that the burden of rising energy costs falls on the large-load customers who create increasing demand. These bills begin to move us in the right direction. From the Ratepayer Protection Act’s creation of a standard states can follow to ensure data centers are paying their fair share, to bills that help ensure that companies are not overbuilding data center infrastructure, these policies have earned bipartisan support because they give the federal government the tools they need to begin enforcing fairer outcomes for consumers.
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) today brought his Ratepayer Protection Act to the Senate floor, seeking its passage by unanimous consent—a process that expedites consideration of legislation in the United States Senate. A Senate Democrat objected, blocking the bill from Senate passage. The Ratepayer Protection Act would ensure American families and small businesses aren’t left paying for the energy infrastructure needed to support new data centers.
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We need more action at the federal level. I will continue to push for more federal action to ensure greater transparency and regulation for data center projects; coordination between local governments siting these projects and state and federal energy and environmental regulators; that renewable energy sources and battery storage are brought online in a much more significant way to meet energy demand; and more.
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September 17, 2026 Received September 23, 2026 Read the first time September 24, 2026 Read the second time and placed on the calendar
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312 | 16-Sep | H R 9340 | On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended | P | Ratepayer Protection Act
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Cosponsors Kathy Castor (FL); Jefferson Van Drew (NJ); John Joyce (PA); Michael T. McCaul (TX); Michael Baumgartner (WA); Clay Fuller (GA); Robert J. Wittman (VA); Robert F. Onder, Jr. (MO); Harriet M. Hageman (WY); Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (NJ); John J. McGuire III (VA); H. Morgan Griffith (VA); Ryan Mackenzie (PA); Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA); Jennifer L. McClellan (VA)
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H.R. 9340 would expand the criteria that electric utilities must consider when establishing rates for electricity. Specifically, the bill would require utilities to consider charging rates to certain large-load customers that are designed to recover the costs of upgrading the utility system needed to serve those customers. Under the bill, a large-load customer is defined as a nonresidential electricity consumer that operates a data center with a peak demand for electricity of at least 100 megawatts at a single facility.
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Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, took to the Senate floor to object to Senate passage of the Ratepayer Protection Act, legislation offered by U.S. Senator Jon Husted (R-Ohio), and pass Heinrich’s GRID Savings Act instead.
Assessments
The verified commitment was an action promise to continue advocating/pushing for federal data-center transparency, regulation, regulator coordination, and expanded renewable energy and battery storage. The verified September 23, 2026 passage from McClellan states that more federal action is needed and that she will continue to push for those same policies, documenting continued advocacy in the same term. The evidence supports fulfillment of the advocacy action, not enactment of the broader policy outcome.