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House Crushes Sandy Adams Effort To Keep Kids Energy Stupid | Even the Tea Party Congress can’t rustle up the votes to deliberately raise a generation of ignorant energy wasters. By a 181-233 vote, the House rejected an amendment from Rep. Sandy Adams (R-FL) that would prohibit federal websites that teach children about energy efficiency. Forty-eight Republicans joined every Democrat voting against this amendment for energy illiteracy.

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