Washington, Feb. 9 -- Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez issued the following press release:
This week, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) (http://gluesenkampperez.house.gov/), Rep. Joe Morelle (NY-25), and Senator Ben Ray Lujan (NM) introduced the Fair Repair Act, which would guarantee individuals and small businesses the right to repair their own products by requiring manufacturers to make diagnostic repair information, parts, and tools readily available.
"The amount of money, time and emissions that are wasted every year by the multinationals who profit off planned obsolescence disgusts every red blooded American. We are not children or hapless consumers-we deserve the right to fix our own stuff, from laptops to tractors to washing machin...