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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: Electric Graffiti
Congress has no authority to create bodies like the EPA

Congress didn't.

41 posted on 11/15/2013 1:16:30 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: AstralisLux

Congress funds it, so of course they can question it! Moron.


42 posted on 11/15/2013 1:25:12 PM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: AstralisLux
Certainly the Congress has authority over Agencies PARTICULARY WITH THE ABILITY TO DEFUND ANY AGENCY OR DEPARTMENT OR POLICY - e.g. OBAMACARE.
43 posted on 11/15/2013 1:33:06 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: AstralisLux

Donna is from the native state of Pelosi. Coincidence?


44 posted on 11/15/2013 1:38:08 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: publius911; PATRIOT1876
"defund the EPA"

That is irrelevant. The EPA is an agency in the executive branch to administer and enforce the laws. That's why the EPA was created.

You can defund the EPA but the Clean Air Act is still the law. As is the Clean Water Act or the Safe Drinking water Act. Thru the years congress has passed many acts that have become part of the US Code Book.

And thru the years the courts have made many decisions that carry the weight of law and are in the US Code.

Well golly, lets defund EPA and that will make all the legislative acts and judicial decisions impertinent?

45 posted on 11/15/2013 1:47:39 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: Secret Agent Man

equal branches. fedgov agencies are not congressional branches. they are lower. they answer to any three of those branches even though only one oversees them day to day.

Maybe “Donna” should just resign and go home. Apparently she is in agreement with obamaramadingdong that the Congress is irrelevant.


46 posted on 11/15/2013 2:00:47 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: AstralisLux

It is amazing how ignorant demoncrats are and how they get elected being so stupid. Do these people ever study the constitution? Do they ever study government?
This is up there with SJL thinking we had goneto Mars and the jackass who thought Guam would capsize if we stationed more Marines there.


47 posted on 11/15/2013 2:07:20 PM PST by WilliamRobert (Rafael Cruz is an American hero, and he makes me proud to be Texan.)
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To: Ben Ficklin

*lets defund EPA and that will make all the legislative acts and judicial decisions impertinent? *

We all want to end Obamacare.

The Jim Crow laws went away.

Slavery laws were taken away.

Don’t stand on the “law of the land” phrase.

If the EPA is defunded they can’t cause any more trouble.


48 posted on 11/15/2013 3:30:45 PM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: cripplecreek

“And I doubt the EPA’s ability to survive if their funding was stripped away.’

The Republicans in the House of Representatives have had the Constitutional authority to defund the EPA since January 2011. They have the authority but don’t have the guts.


49 posted on 11/15/2013 7:02:09 PM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Jim Noble

If Congress has no authority to create legislative bodies likie the EPA, does it really need to be said that the executive and judicial branches don’t have that authority either?

Unbelievable.


50 posted on 11/21/2013 11:50:24 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (STERILIZE OBAMA VOTERS)
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