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House Republicans Propose 34 Percent Cut To EPA Funding, Restrictions on Rulemaking
bloomberg ^ | 7/23/2013 | Patrick Ambrosio, Andrew Childers, Jessica Coomes, and Amena H. Saiyid

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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1 posted on 07/31/2013 5:24:02 PM PDT by EBH
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To: EBH

That’s a good start but take all rule making regs away from them.


2 posted on 07/31/2013 5:30:20 PM PDT by jazusamo ("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
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To: EBH

A measly 34 cut%? Should be a 100% cut!! Fire them all!!


3 posted on 07/31/2013 5:31:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: EBH

As others have already said, it’s a start. However...

I give them until morning before they start apologizing.


4 posted on 07/31/2013 5:41:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
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To: EBH

Proposal and action seldom meet in the Reblican Party anymore.


5 posted on 07/31/2013 5:43:03 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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To: Jim Robinson

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.


6 posted on 07/31/2013 5:45:49 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: EBH

What the heck, a burst of sanity on the hill? Must have changed the water cooler.


7 posted on 07/31/2013 5:56:39 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: EBH
The $24.3 billion appropriations bill contains enough spending cuts to replace automatic discretionary spending cuts established under the Budget Control Act of 2011.

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.

8 posted on 07/31/2013 6:11:46 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: EBH

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.


9 posted on 07/31/2013 6:16:59 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: EBH

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.


10 posted on 07/31/2013 6:21:45 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: EBH

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.


11 posted on 07/31/2013 6:41:59 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: EBH

Shut it down, drive a stake in its heart and burn it to the ground.


12 posted on 07/31/2013 8:02:45 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks EBH.
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."

13 posted on 07/31/2013 8:07:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: EBH

Women, children and minorities hit hardest


14 posted on 07/31/2013 8:20:19 PM PDT by esoxmagnum (The rats have been trained to pull the D voting lever to get their little food pellet)
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To: EBH

The EPA is filled with Marxist propagandists.


15 posted on 08/01/2013 1:19:01 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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