Posted on 02/01/2017 7:36:30 AM PST by Helicondelta
Neil Gorsuch is the first member of his family chosen for a seat on the Supreme Court, but he isn’t the only Gorsuch nominated by a U.S. president to a key government post.
His mother, Anne Gorsuch, served as President Ronald Reagan’s first Environmental Protection Agency administrator and the first female leader in the agency’s history. But her short, tumultuous tenure was marked by sharp budget cuts, rifts with career EPA employees, a steep decline in cases filed against polluters and a scandal over the mismanagement of the Superfund cleanup program that ultimately led to her resignation in 1983.
Anne Gorsuch — like Reagan then and President Trump today — was a firm believer that the federal government was too big, too powerful and too eager to issue regulations that restricted businesses.
As a result, she slashed the EPA’s budget by nearly a quarter and, according to a Washington Post story at the time, boasted that she had reduced the thickness of the book of clean water regulations from six inches to a half inch.
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I remember the attacks on Anne Gorsuch back in the early 1980s. The press made her out to be some conservative monster at the time. But she did a great job of cutting the EPA budget and staff. At least now there is a conservative opposition media to fight back when the MSM attacks Republicans and conservative officials.
Comes from good stock then ! :-)
Yes, she sounds like a saint, what is their problem?!
Yeah. he keeps looking better and better.
Senator Phil Gramm in his final years predicted that the day would come when Americans would hunt democrats with dogs.
I THOUGHT the name had a familiar ring to it. Great job, Mom, in raising a brilliant son!
There is not enough bandwidth to list all the Washington Compost and libtards problems.
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More fake news from the fake news website Washingtonpost dot com.
From the article:
For her part, Gorsuch felt targeted by the “hysteria” of environmental groups, unfairly demonized by the press and not fully supported by the president.
“When congressional criticism about the EPA began to touch the presidency, Mr. Reagan solved his problem by jettisoning me and my people, people [whose] only ‘crime’ was loyal service, following orders,” she wrote in her 1986 book, “Are You Tough Enough?” She added, “I was not the first to receive his special brand of benevolent neglect, a form of conveniently looking the other way, while his staff continues to do some very dirty work.”
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That “not fully supported by the president” isn’t going to happen this time!
I would halfway expect President Trump to Tweet that he is sorry Anne Gorsuch is not alive so she could resume her work at the EPA. ;-)
Sounds to me as if it went very well indeed.
Sic 'em, Hillary!
Her short, tumultuous tenure was marked by sharp budget cuts, rifts with career EPA employees, a steep decline in cases filed against polluters and a scandal over the mismanagement of the Superfund cleanup program that ultimately led to her resignation in 1983.
Anne Gorsuch — like Reagan then and President Trump today — was a firm believer that the federal government was too big, too powerful and too eager to issue regulations that restricted businesses.
As a result, she slashed the EPA’s budget by nearly a quarter and, according to a Washington Post story at the time, boasted that she had reduced the thickness of the book of clean water regulations from six inches to a half inch!
This from a news source that responded with crickets when the Obama EPA created an environmental disaster in Colorado. And they had been warned not to continue what they were doing. SMH
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Congress was run by the ‘rats back then.
She turned over thousands of documents to investigators and only held back 40 or so at the direction of Pres. Reagan.
Sounds like she was very successful.
I knew Anne and her sisters. Great family. If Neil is half as good as his mom we will be just fine
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