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Dem Rep doubts authority of Congress to question the EPA
Spero News ^ | 11/15/2013 | Clinton Gillespie

Posted on 11/15/2013 11:00:36 AM PST by AstralisLux

During a congressional hearing with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, Democratic Congresswoman Donna Edwards (Maryland), claimed Congress has no authority to question the EPA's data and techniques. [video]

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To: AstralisLux

Homer: [flipping through Bible] But this book doesn't have any answers!
Grampa Simpson: Beware, BEWARE! Time is short! Eeeepa! Eeeepa! EEEEEPA!

21 posted on 11/15/2013 11:15:06 AM PST by Teacher317 (Obama is failing faster than I can lower my expectations.)
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To: AstralisLux
Dem Rep doubts authority of Congress to question the EPA

FIRST, cut off all funding for the EPA and make it illegal to transfer any funds to them, THEN have this discussion.

22 posted on 11/15/2013 11:17:47 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
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To: AstralisLux

The Stupid is strong in this one...


23 posted on 11/15/2013 11:18:30 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Executive Branch agencies are not “lower”. They are in a separate branch of government from the legislature, and the legislature is in fact authorized to oversee executive branch activities, and to fund or not fund accordingly.


24 posted on 11/15/2013 11:22:55 AM PST by 22202NOVA ("Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage." -- H.L. Mencken)
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To: AstralisLux

Yet when Bush was President all we heard about was Congress’ constitutional duty of “oversight”.


25 posted on 11/15/2013 11:22:57 AM PST by circlecity
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26 posted on 11/15/2013 11:23:23 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Darksheare
And this is why doing away with teaching U.S. government and civics as it used to be was such a bad idea.

"Core Curriculum?"
The teaching of U.S. Government and civics has not been eliminated, it has been redefined. like so many other things; propaganda is the new "Civics."

"We must obey the president"
"Congress has the ability to tell us what we need."

Etc., etc...

27 posted on 11/15/2013 11:27:12 AM PST by publius911 ( At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
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To: AstralisLux

Congress has no Constitional authority to make other legislative ‘bodies’ like the EPA.

Are there enough lamp posts in D.C.?


28 posted on 11/15/2013 11:28:46 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (STERILIZE OBAMA VOTERS)
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To: Jim Robinson
Gingrich was right. Fire EVERYONE at the EPA!!

Then get working on the Department of Education, and then, "I've got a little list, none of them will be missed"

29 posted on 11/15/2013 11:32:39 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: GeronL
wow.....Just when you think things could not get dumber....


30 posted on 11/15/2013 11:34:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

“That comment from the rep needs and immediate and blunt response from boner.”

Not a chance. If owebama had a sister...


31 posted on 11/15/2013 11:40:24 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: Darksheare
Now we have idiots in office who never learned how our government works, nor what the three branches are

Not so fast. I went to school in the Lost World, and I understand the three branches VERY well.

So well, in fact, that I began to look into how the EPA could be abolished or curtailed in a meaningful way.

WELL...

The EPA was not created by an Act of Congress. There is no section of the US Code that creates it or authorizes it's existence.

It was created by Executive Order to simplify the task of the Executive Branch in enforcing a number of huge and unconstitutional laws that actually WERE passed by Congress between the late 1950s and the late 1960s.

As such, it is purely a creature of the President.

32 posted on 11/15/2013 11:40:57 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: AstralisLux

Donna Edwards is Hank “Guam is Capsizing” Johnson’s “sister.”


33 posted on 11/15/2013 11:41:28 AM PST by vette6387
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To: 22202NOVA

we are not disagreeing. they are not on an equal level of the three branches of govt. they answer to any of the three, they are directed and controlled by them in terms of funding, scope, actions, and legal decisions.


34 posted on 11/15/2013 11:43:20 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: publius911

Yes.
Redefined as that.


35 posted on 11/15/2013 11:43:59 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: AstralisLux

Impeach and remove Obozo and fire these two female rats.


36 posted on 11/15/2013 12:09:26 PM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: AstralisLux

Do not ever question the bureaucracy.


37 posted on 11/15/2013 12:17:28 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Gingrich was right. Fire EVERYONE at the EPA!!

Here is how you do it. You send them all out into the parking lots. Then you call each one by name to return, one at a time based only on need. After 10 days, those that have not been called back are let go, fired, out, part of the RIF, and must seek employment elsewhere.

38 posted on 11/15/2013 12:36:46 PM PST by Rapscallion (The party of the liberal lie have given you Obamacare. Republicans were locked out of the process.)
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To: AstralisLux

She is shooting for Sheila Jackson Lee’s position as Most Stupid black in the Congress.

She might get it too.


39 posted on 11/15/2013 12:46:40 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: knarf
Gingrich was right in a LOT of things:

Environmental policy wasn't one of them.

40 posted on 11/15/2013 12:51:19 PM PST by Carry_Okie ("Single payer" is Medicaid for all; they'll pull the sheet over your head when you're done.)
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