HOUSE APPROVES BILL BLOCKING FEDERAL WATER GRAB

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Tuesday | May 12, 2015

A bill backed by Rep. Labrador would send EPA and the Army Corps back to the drawing board
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A measure forcing the Obama Administration to withdraw its “waters of the United States” rule cleared the House Tuesday on a bipartisan 261-155 vote.
Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, is an original cosponsor of H.R. 1732, the Regulatory Integrity Protection Act. Labrador has been working since last year on a legislative remedy, which now heads to the Senate.
H.R. 1732 would require the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw the rule within 30 days and replace it only after extensive consultation with state and local officials and other stakeholders.
“This water grab is a stunning example of regulatory excess,” Labrador said. “It would mean Idahoans could need a federal permit to plow their fields or dig a ditch. The Obama Administration needs to push the reset button and start over by recognizing impacts on real people and respecting the authority of the states.”
Proposed in April 2014, the rule vastly expands the reach of federal regulation under the Clean Water Act. It redefines the four-decade-old “navigable waters” regulatory standard as the “waters of the United States.” Non-navigable waters are now regulated by the states, who have been partners with the federal government under the Clean Water Act. The rule is now before the Office of Management and Budget for review.
More than 1 million comments have been received on the rule. Its usurpation of state authority has prompted 22 states to call for its withdrawal, while 11 seek revisions. H.R. 1732 is supported by a broad coalition, including the Idaho and American Farm Bureau Federations, Idaho Grain Producers, Idaho Cattle Association, National Association of Homebuilders, National Federation of Independent Business and U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Everyone is fighting this. It is truly outrageous. makes you wonder if that while we’re fighting this, which is obvious, they are doing something else..and they are always doing something else.

There is not a County in the West that hasn’t done resolutions in opposition. They want every last drop of water. All of this water stuff... All agenda 21 crap. create the crisis... Then make laws controlling people’s behaviors and take more of their freedom and we give it up willingly. We keep falling for it.

"The Obama Administration needs to push the reset button and start over by recognizing impacts on real people and respecting the authority of the states.”

Whether he realizes it or not, Labrador has hit on the crux of the problem. Barack Obama has never held a real job. He's never had to be a "real person" in the regular American sense. Spending his formative years in other nations, benefiting from Affirmative Action in education, and having others clear the way for him as the Annointed One has shielded him from developing any capacity for comprehending that boundary between the theoretical ideal and hard-boiled reality.

Fooling the masses with highfalutin rhetoric about hope for change and equality of outcomes, this sophist has been placed by Lady Democracy in a position to send his policies amok in the garden of American freedom, undermining and redefining the very notion of what it means to be free.

Good on the House for this one small, pyrrhic victory.

...and they are always doing something else

Yep, they have to be watched constantly on all fronts. Ain't easy.

We keep falling for it.

The new generations are walking in front of buses while looking down at their phones.

The dumbing down has been quite successful.

The Lemming Syndrome™ has been implemented by our current political system.

Nice that it passed by a good margin, but NOTHING will come of this and the REPUBLICANS KNOW IT. They need two thirds and they are not nearly close enough in the House, and it’s DOA in the Senate. No different than their symbolic votes to kill Obamacare.

If the Republicans REALLY want to stop this grab, they simply WOULD NOT FUND EPA unless this policy were stopped...that is the real test, and they have failed, every time.

Yep, that's why the government has to be “restarted” to use the common term out there now.

According to the Constitution and more than one founding father it's way past time.

Interesting quote:

I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public’s war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.
Thomas Paine, On Financing the War, 1782

Looks like that needs to be internalized, our Government is the King George of this age.

Ironic it's the same old fight again, for Independence.

Which is why, I imagine, Obama and the dems...with the blessings of the GOP...want everyone “dependent.”

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.--Thomas Jefferson

Our government is just begging for revolution.

A part of #WWIII, which we have been in for quite some time.

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