Posted on 11/05/2015 6:59:42 AM PST by george76
While everyone was voting in Colorado elections Tuesday, scant attention was paid to how our U.S. Senators voted on a measure that is extremely important to our entire way of life.
We'll give you a hint - it's water.
A bill by our Wyoming neighbor, Republican U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, would have required the EPA to rewrite the egregious Waters of the United States rule to give states and the agriculture industry more protection.
WOTUS, as it's known, is the latest and worstest regulation issued by the Obama administration to regulate ponds and ditches in neighborhoods and farms as navigable waters, as if it were rivers or the ocean.
Barrasso's measure would have also required more input from local communities, something which liberals and Democrats are always screaming for when it comes to natural resources development.
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Too bad Barrasso's bill was killed in a filibuster. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet voted to kill the measure, while Sen. Cory Gardner voted to support Barrasso's bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at coloradopeakpolitics.com ...
The President of the USA can order the EPA to do anything he wants. 14 more months til Trump takes office. He can even shut er down.
What a putz
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