The EPA, like every other Federal Agency, is exactly the way Congress has allowed or deliberately made it to be over a long, long period of time. Congress funds these agencies and very often these agencies are acting directly because of Congressional mandates.
Yes, EPA is directly responsible for some of the most intrusive mandates imaginable, but Congress is directly responsible for EPA.
“Yes, EPA is directly responsible for some of the most intrusive mandates imaginable, but Congress us directly responsible for EPA.
Correct. Under the Constitution funds must be appropriated by the House of Representatives. We are now in fiscal year 2012 budget, the first for which the Republican Congress elected in 2010 is responsible. How much of the EPA was defunded by the Boehner House for 2012?