Posted on 07/31/2013 5:24:02 PM PDT by EBH
House Republicans released a draft appropriations bill July 22 that would cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 34 percent compared with the fiscal 2013 enacted level and restrict the agency's ability to implement air and water quality regulations.
The House's fiscal 2014 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies appropriations bill would provide EPA with $5.5 billion in funding in fiscal 2014, a $2.8 billion reduction compared with the fiscal year 2013 enacted level. The $24.3 billion appropriations bill contains enough spending cuts to replace automatic discretionary spending cuts established under the Budget Control Act of 2011.
The bill would cut funding from several agencies within the Interior Department, including the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and would forbid the department from spending appropriated funds to work on a rule governing protections for the greater sage grouse (see related story).
House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said in a July 22 statement that the bill would boost the economy and encourage job growth by holding back overly zealous and unnecessary environmental regulations.
The bill contains numerous legislative riders that would restrict the agency from finalizing planned environmental regulations, including greenhouse gas emissions standards for standards for new and existing electric-generating plants and proposed Tier 3 standards for gasoline and motor vehicles.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies is scheduled to meet July 23 to mark up the bill.
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That’s a good start but take all rule making regs away from them.
A measly 34 cut%? Should be a 100% cut!! Fire them all!!
As others have already said, it’s a start. However...
I give them until morning before they start apologizing.
Proposal and action seldom meet in the Reblican Party anymore.
Did you read Clancy’s Rainbow 6? Last chapter has a solution to the EPA problem.
http://books.google.com/books?id=glmWVMH018wC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Scroll down to the very bottom, then back up to Page 889 and read from there.
What the heck, a burst of sanity on the hill? Must have changed the water cooler.
If it just has the same amount as the sequestered budget, then the only cuts are in the increase, not the total. On the other hand, it looks like they shifted the cuts to the deserving like the EPA.
Even if passed, Obama will just ignore it. Laws mean nothing to him except to the degree they can used to punish us. For what? Existing.
It’s a fine symbolic gesture. But nobody see budget cuts, and wresting power and authority from a government entity in today’s climate is impossible.
The EPA is one of the key elements in Obama’s People Control Program, for virtually everything we do can be said to affect or be affected by our physical environment.
Shut it down, drive a stake in its heart and burn it to the ground.
House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said in a July 22 statement that the bill would boost the economy and encourage job growth by "holding back overly zealous and unnecessary environmental regulations."
Women, children and minorities hit hardest
The EPA is filled with Marxist propagandists.
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