She also expressed support for the Lowering Utility Bills Act, which would bar transmission providers and for-profit utilities from requiring consumers to pay for private jet rides, lobbying, and contributions to politicians, and it sets a national standard for a reasonable ‘Return on Equity,’ to clamp down on for-profit utilities charging consumers unreasonable rates.
I will support the Lowering Utility Bills Act to bar utilities from passing private jet, lobbying, and political contribution costs onto consumers and to set a national standard for a reasonable return on equity.
Occurrences
Evidence
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H.R. 8568 was introduced in the House on April 29, 2026 and referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The full title says it would require investor owned electric utilities and gas utilities and transmission providers to calculate return on equity at the lowest return in an established range of reasonableness.
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On May 11, 2026, Wasserman Schultz said she 'also expressed support for the Lowering Utility Bills Act,' describing it as a bill that would bar transmission providers and for-profit utilities from requiring consumers to pay for private jet rides, lobbying, and contributions to politicians, and set a national standard for a reasonable Return on Equity.
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Wasserman Schultz's official House office said she discussed "her co-sponsorship of the Lowering Utility Bills Act," describing it as a bill targeting utility company costs charged to consumers.
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The bill page lists H.R. 8568 as referred, with last action on April 29, 2026, and lists Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL-25] as a cosponsor. It reports no vote records attached yet and cites Congress.gov and the Congress.gov API as sources.
Assessments
The promise was to support the Lowering Utility Bills Act, not necessarily to secure enactment of the underlying utility-rate reforms. During the same federal House term, Wasserman Schultz publicly supported the named bill and her office described her as a co-sponsor; current bill records also corroborate her cosponsorship while showing the bill remained referred to committee with no passage or enactment. That is enough to fulfill the support promise, though not to show the policy became law.
The promise was to support the Lowering Utility Bills Act. Evidence shows Wasserman Schultz publicly expressed support for the bill in May 2026, and the bill was introduced in the House in April 2026. However, the record provided does not show enactment, House passage, Senate passage, or that she sponsored or materially advanced it beyond public support. Because the commitment is framed as support rather than guaranteed passage, her public endorsement is meaningful progress, but not enough to count as full delivery without clearer evidence of legislative action she took or a completed policy outcome.