Yeah, good luck with that.
Posted on 09/09/2015 11:46:14 AM PDT by jazusamo
A Republican congressman is looking to impeach the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) is circulating a resolution calling for the impeachment of EPA administrator Gina McCarthy, accusing her of perjury while testifying before Congress this year.
“Perjury and making false statements to Congress are an affront to the fundamental principles of our republic and the rule of law, and such behavior cannot be tolerated,” Gosar wrote in a letter to colleagues looking for co-sponsors for his resolution.
“This bill holds Administrator McCarthy accountable for her blatant deceptions and unlawful conduct.”
In the letter, Gosar accused McCarthy of perjuring herself several times while testifying before congressional committees since February.
In each case, McCarthy was discussing the agency’s rule expanding its regulatory power over waterways, something Gosar and other Republicans deeply opposed.
Many of Gosar’s accusations center around disagreements between the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers — the two agencies that wrote the water rule — and the way McCarthy discussed the formulation of the rule during her testimony.
“Administrator McCarthy committed perjury and made several false statements at multiple congressional hearings, and as a result, is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors - an impeachable offense,” Gosar alleges in the letter.
An EPA spokeswoman said the agency has no comment on the resolution.
Gosar has long been crticial of McCarthy and the EPA in general. His resolution is the latest Republican attack on the EPA over the water rule.
The House passed a bill this summer to stop the rule, which the EPA finalized in May.
When a federal judge issued a injunction against the rule last month, Gosar called it “a job-killing, overreaching new regulation that would be a dream killer for future generations and result in significant job losses.”
The EPA has defended the rule’s legality and said the federal government has a responsibly to aggressively protect waterways from pollution.
—This post was updated at 2:21 p.m.
You might want to add the NLRB while you’re at it.
This is all well and good, but what about those felons Hillary and Lois and Jon?
Is it real, or just a show like Gowdy’s “investigations?”
...just more talk to look like they are doing nothing....
Yep, and others.
Yeah, good luck with that.
The EPA is Richard Nixon’s worst idea and should be abolished, along with the Energy Dept. and the Education Dept. These bureaucrats are harmful to the country.
Grandstanding BS!
Fool me once shame on you.
Fool me 3,839 times, shame on me!
I'll believe it when I see it.
Or just STFU and go away.
"You might want to add the NLRB while you’re at it."
And while you're at it, the entire Traitorobama regime!
How much energy does the DOE produce, anyway ?
Make it a twofer and impeach The Despot in the WH too.
Absolutely...He should be #1 on the list.
The whole EPA agency needs to be absorbed into the Dept of the interior.
” Ms. Lerner lives in a 2 million $$ 6000 sq ft house in the suburbs of DC”
Not bad on 15,000 per month salary. Hubby must be a DC lawyer : )
You would think, that since the House starts new legislative sessions by reading the Constitution out loud, that since the first numbered clauses in the Constitution clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, that Congress wouldn’t help to establish so-called regulatory agencies like the EPA that is run by bureaucrats not accountable to the voters.
And the post-17th Amendment ratification Senate can take part of the blame too for not protecting the states by not killing bills that help to establish unconstitutonal federal agencies like the EPA.
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