Posted on 04/09/2023 9:34:51 AM PDT by Twotone
President Joe Biden on Thursday issued his second veto since taking office, halting a bipartisan resolution that would have reversed waterway regulations enacted by his administration last month.
The Biden Amdinistration’s regulations issue protections for “hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands, and other waterways,” walking back deregulations implemented during the Trump Administration, as the Associated Press noted. Republicans and some Democrats, like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), have argued the new regulations are an executive branch overreach.
After vetoing the resolution, Biden said his administration’s regulation “provides clear rules of the road that will help advance infrastructure projects, economic investments, and agricultural activities — all while protecting water quality and public health,” the Hill reported.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced the new regulations, “Revising the Definition of ‘Waters of the United States (WOTUS),'” in late December. Those in the private sector will need federal permits in order to carry out efforts like “construction or mining” on the myriad of newly protected waterways, according to the Hill.
Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO) introduced H.J, Resolution 27 through the Congressional Review Act in February to override the regulations. Graves’s resolution passed by a margin of 227-198 with the help of nine Democrats in March.
The bill then advanced from the Senate last week with the support of 53 Senators. Four Democrats, including Manchin, Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), and Sen. Jackie Rose (D-NV), joined 48 Republicans and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), who fled the Democrat party months ago, in voting for the resolution.
Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) ripped Biden following the veto, stating he “turned his back on Montana farmers and ranchers.”
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Whatever the Citizens of the USA decide, Bindem will veto, why? Because the Puppetmaster told him to.
I thought the Supreme Court struck that turd down.
The Left loves regulations.
I remember Ronald Reagan holding up a sheet or two that was all you needed to sign up for welfare and a large binder of regulations and requests for approval to open a new business.
Not surpising. The Biden clique hates America with a passion.
That is pure nonsense. These regs on the tiniest streams and water puddles have one objective -- KILL all development. Farmers are especially destroyed trying to comply with all the regs.
Chris Brundick stands near a low-lying area on his Maries County, Missouri farm that he is concerned could be classified as a Water of the United States, putting more restrictions on his land.
The Left loves regulations.
I remember Ronald Reagan holding up a sheet or two that was all you needed to sign up for welfare and a large binder of regulations and requests for approval to open a new business.
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The Leftist whores now in control of our Country will do anything and everything it can to oppress the peasantry, make no mistake about it!
That is pure nonsense. These regs on the tiniest streams and water puddles have one objective — KILL all development. Farmers are especially destroyed trying to comply with all the regs.
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That is EXACTLY the entire purpose of such legislation. President Trump saw right through this treachery, but now Diaper Joe has again turned the EPA into an agency of Leftist oppression. Wonder if its enforcers will be issued uniforms like Hitler’s Sturmabteilung? Would anyone here be surprised??
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