Ted Cruz Is Holding Up Bipartisan Action To Make E-Bike Batteries Safe
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The Texas senator, up for reelection, has expanded a crusade against gas stove regulations into a scorched earth campaign against a bill to reduce deadly e-bike battery fires.
By Greg B. Smith, THE CITY
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A federal bill the FDNY contends would help douse the dangerous trend of e-bike battery fires that has killed 31 New Yorkers in four years has been stalled in the Senate since July. The roadblock: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and his rage against what he sees as the Biden Administration’s campaign to ban gas stoves.
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