Bryan Chai writes for the Western Journal about an interesting vote on Capitol Hill.
Eleven House Democrats jumped party lines to vote with their Republican counterparts in a bid to overturn regulations pushed during former President Joe Biden’s tenure.
According to Fox News, the House of Representatives voted 226-197 to overturn Biden-era regulations effectively aimed at restricting how strong shower heads could be.
Federal law already caps how much water a shower head is allowed to emit.
During the Biden administration, regulators took a broader view of that rule. They concluded that showers equipped with multiple nozzles had to be treated as a single unit, meaning the total water flow across all heads could not exceed the legal maximum.
The practical effect was straightforward: the more nozzles a shower had, the weaker each one became.
Multi-head systems were effectively throttled, trading water pressure for regulatory compliance.
“Washington bureaucrats have gone too far in dictating what happens in Americans’ own homes,” Rep. Russell Fry, a Republican from South Carolina, said of the regulations.
“This is about defending consumer choice, pushing back on regulatory overreach and standing up for commonsense policy.”
Fry sponsored this bill, known as the SHOWER (Saving Homeowners from Overregulation with Exceptional Rinsing) Act. It was a direct response to the Biden-era rules that sought to cap shower head effectiveness.
“That rule was widely criticized as overreach and emblematic of a broader regulatory agenda targeting everyday household appliances,” Fry said earlier in a statement. “The SHOWER Act is a smart fix that reaffirms each shower nozzle is just that — its own shower head — and should be treated accordingly under the law.”
Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, one of the 11 defecting Democrats, had a simple response when asked about the bill.
“Shower pressure is a good thing,” he said.
