This law can still be repealed. It needs to be repealed.
But the GOP 'leadership' which controls the House and the House Energy and Commerce Committees sees it differently.72% Don’t Want Feds Changing Their Light Bulbs - Rasmussen Reports
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Upton flips a switch on CFL bulbsThree years after he led the charge to require consumers to ditch their comfortable old incandescent lights in favor of those twisty CFL bulbs, Rep. Fred Upton now wants to be the man to help undo that law as the next chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
That about-face is not unique among lawmakers looking to atone for stances they've taken over the past decade as they seek to gain top posts in a decidedly more conservative Republican Congress, but his reversal underscores how intent the GOP is on proving it has broken with past practices.
"We have heard the grass roots loud and clear, and will have a hearing early next Congress," said Mr. Upton, a Michigan Republican who is facing several others in his party in a bid to earn the gavel of the powerful committee. >>>
Indeed, the compact fluorescent lamp, or CFL, has become a symbol of government overreach for many consumers, who wonder what was wrong with the incandescent bulbs that have lighted their kitchens, family rooms and bedrooms for more than a century. >>> in the intervening years, CFLs have joined low-flow toilets in drawing the scorn of consumers, and some argue that the bulbs' mercury content poses a safety and environmental hazard. >>>
"It's emblematic of everything that's wrong in the relationship between Washington and the voters. There was no conversation; there was no back-and-forth. The voters woke up one morning, and they said you can't buy incandescent light bulbs," said Michael McKenna, a Republican strategist and energy lobbyist who has followed the issue.
Mr. Upton and other lawmakers - including the other three men seeking the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee - now say they've learned their lesson and want to unshackle consumers and restore their choice in light bulbs.
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Is talk cheap or what Mr Upton? They - and by that I mean Republicans too - think the general population is so ignorant. Michelle Bauchman introduced a bill a year or so ago to repeal this and was shot down.
The horse is out of the barn and treating liberty as sacrosanct isn't something one just stumbles upon Mr Upton/ Boehner. 
"A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know & prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins." -- Benjamin Franklin
