Congress Should Let Funds Evaporate for ‘Clean Water Rule’

Daily Signal ^ | 8 March 2018 | Daran Bakst

[lowbuck]

Congress now needs to use the “power of the purse” in the upcoming omnibus appropriations bill to continue its efforts to rein in agencies and reassert its lawmaking power. . . snip

By developing an overbroad definition of “waters of the United States,” the agencies have been seeking to regulate almost every water imaginable and trample on property rights.

The WOTUS Rule takes this federal overreach to a new level. For example, it would regulate certain man-made ditches and even regulate what most people would consider dry land.

Congress should expressly prohibit funding for implementation and enforcement of the WOTUS Rule.

[lowbuck]

Well worth the few minutes to read in its entirety. The article also contains many useful links.

Why post this article? Today, the vast majority of Americans do not understand the checks-and-balances built into our government by the founders.

Using the "power of the purse" is a valid exercise of the legislative branch, but, if used by this Congress to rein in the administrative monster they created, Congress will be decried by the MSM/Democrats as "some new power grasp" by Republicans trying to thwart the will of the people.

Knowledge is power. I don’t think Civics is taught in the schools anymore so I suggest we share this bit.

[sparklite2]

Here’s my take on separation of powers. If the executive branch is co-equal with Congress, then why does the president’s cabinet have the be approved by the Senate? The Senate is not required to get the president’s approval for Senate staffers.

If Congress can term-limit presidents without having to be term-limited themselves, then Congress is a more powerful branch than the executive. It tells me the Founders never envisioned the entrenched, corrupt elite body the legislature has become.

Did you ever wonder how someone gets into Congress and stays there so long that when they leave office, they are worth multiples of what their salary could have provided? Have they not been bought and paid for?

[Nailbiter]

“...when they leave office, they are worth multiples of what their salary could have provided? Have they not been bought and paid for?”

I have always believed was insider trading

[sparklite2]

Insider trading, bribery, extortion... I’m sure it’s all common.

[existtoexcel]

The EPA's founding mission, to clear debris, applied to navigable waters.

Not that rain puddle the ducks are in, filling that swale in the back 40. Making new regs to create staff for enforcement thereby expanding budgets, has allowed their exponential expansion. The EPA has been giving carte-blanche, gold/platinum credit card by liberals, easily shuck jiving the environment angle past congressional Bobbitt members.

Their mission complete, disband and congratulate. States' job now to control waste steams and trash in the environment, as many states already do. Idaho for example has DEQ, Dept. of Environmental Quality, not federally funded.

Drastic budget cuts via the purse string, across many agencies, are appropriate during this decade.

[mosesdapoet]

It’s a very thorny problem where there is areas which has small streams, spring fed ponds and lakes. Property owners fronting such places have a set back rule where they cannot maintain their property like put up a beach, a dock, or clear a view of the jungle that develops which fronts such bodies of water that because of those rules.

[V K Lee]

Knowledge is power. I don’t think Civics is taught in the schools anymore so I suggest we share this bit.

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You are so right. If Civics were still taught, how could we see ourselves voting a non Natural Born Citizen into the highest office of the land? MOST voters in today’s world have no clue that such stipulations even exist.

Even those who might have been taught had a difficult time remembering not only where a contender might be born, but the fact BOTH PARENTS must be American citizens. There was a heavy veil covering these states which hindered knowledgeable persons, blocking these lessons from being remembered.

Speak Up; Speak Loudly! Proclaim it will NEVER be allowed to happen again.

[Rashputin]

Let funds evaporate? Crap, the EPA is a creation of Congress and as such can be reigned in by stipulating a vary narrow set of concerns they have any say so over.

Get rid of the damn regulations and overreach instead of leaving it all there to be revived again by some bunch of RINOs and Democrat Fascists in the future.

[redfreedom]

I’m quite happy our state does not have the rules/laws you just mentioned. I was not even aware of something like that until a decade or so ago when I was putting in a dock on our lake and a visitor from California had an absolute fit. He actually went to the county to complain I did not do an environmental impact study. He got even madder when he discovered no one at the court house had the faintest idea what he was talking about.

A good lesson here is Californians should not be allowed to move to other states to Kalifornicate them.

[mosesdapoet]

The county where I live in central Wisconsin has a 40 foot set back rule. Some of these folks have a jungle to contend with on their lake frontage including business (Bars etc). In one case the state representative went after the township board to help them get a variance so they could clear their frontage.

[Nailbiter]

Get rid of the damn regulations

reminded me of that letter from Indiana about beavers still laugh when I thin of it

[Nailbiter]

wrong state

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/07/a_dam_fine_letter_west_michiga.html

kust a chuckle for a friday afternoon

[1Old Pro]

By developing an overbroad definition of “waters of the United States,” the agencies have been seeking to regulate almost every water imaginable and trample on property rights.

Total abuse of power.