Posted on 03/11/2023 7:52:46 AM PST by rktman
The House of Representatives voted 227-198 Thursday to overturn the Biden administration’s “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) rule, which has been heavily criticized for broadening the definition of what are considered “navigable waters” subject to federal regulation under the Clean Water Act.
Republicans say the rule places a costly burden on landowners, ranchers, and farmers by claiming regulatory control over lands containing small streams and wetlands. All but one Republican, Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, voted to overturn the rule, with nine Democrats joining.
The resolution was introduced early February and co-sponsored by 170 members of Congress.
“President Biden’s new WOTUS rule is a nuclear warhead aimed squarely at our farm families, small businesses, homebuilders, every property owner, and entire communities because of its overreaching definition,” Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman David Rouzer said in a statement.
“Cloaked under the guise of clean water, all this rule does is expand the federal government’s control over states, localities, and private landowners, making it harder to farm, build, and generate economic prosperity,” he said. “I encourage the Senate to pass this commonsense resolution to push back against onerous rules like this one.”
In February, twenty-four Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to challenge the rule. The Supreme Court is also considering a case that could overturn the rule, Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, which was brought by a couple told by the EPA that they cannot build a house on their own land because it contains wetlands.
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Biden will veto it. House can’t pass any laws by themselves. Need senate & executive branch to go along.
Yeah the stolen senate gets it next.
Needs to be taken to court, this executive rule making must stop.
Biden WILL veto it. And I doubt that Dems will challenge his veto. All Kabuki Theater.
I’m sick of the word “overreaching”. It sound like going for the rolls at the Thanksgiving table.
How about: “illegal abuse of power”.
So?
Put every one of them on record with a vote. Then, force them to defend it.
I know it’s been a while, but it’s called “offense.”
Right. Their best bet is to sit on their thumbs and shut up ...
It’s not a law, just a regulatory overreach. A court needs to smack it down on takings grounds.
If we are going to play by the Biden leftards rules, then there can be no further building or improvements done in Oakland. Flooded streets meet their idiotic criteria for a navigable waterway as much as a puddle in a field.
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Force them to vote on it and go on record.
It passed with bipartisan support in the House. That should be beaten like a drum from the mountain tops.
Kabuki theater or not, it’s better than sitting on their thumbs.
Of course, the price of food can’t get too high.
Plowed fields should never have Bern considered navigable waters. Michigan, with the blasted Democrats in charge, will try it.
Absolutely.
These executive orders are being abused to circumvent the legislative process the Founding Fathers established to prevent this very kind of thing.
Thousands of home owners right now are dealing with too much water & serious damages to their land/dirt.
THE EPA needs to be dissolved.
They have literally become a terrorist group.
our system is broken, if an executive branch can just “make up” a rule without a law being written, then that rule should be able to be overturned by a simple majority vote in the house with no need for senate or president signature.
This is similar to what happened with the supreme court before we got control where the court would simply “make up” constitutional rights and it would take passing a constitutional amendment to overturn those decisions.
This is wrong, and is not how our government is suppose to work.
Omnibus budgets are a defacto way to fund regulatory action that bypasses congress. Normally regulatory actions can’t do a thing without appropriations, but now that congress never legislates agency budgets and just blank checks the agency spending without tying it to how it is spent. It’s criminal.
Am working on a project out in CA. 10K plus elev., seepy site. Feds are asserting jurisdiction under cwa, as the ‘wetland’ is (supposedly) tributary to a creek that connects to a river that runs into lake that is, according to them, “Navigable Water of US”. The waters are in this case Owens Lake, which is dry, mostly, its water sources having been diverted to LA long ago.
I swear I think we have the Manchurian Candidate in the WH.
I’m not sure Biden gets a chance to veto this. And old law set up a process for essentially a legislative veto of administrative rule making. I’m blocking on what it’s called, but it was broken back out, talked and used some a few years ago. Under some circumstances Congress, by itself, can vote to overturn certain rules within certain time spans. Some bad things were undone via it then Trump’s deregulatory run left it temporarily unneeded. Others may recall it better. This navigable water rule, which Biden resurrected, is the sort of thing that even RINOs , Manchin and Sinema might vote to ditch so might get thru the Senate. By all means when they swerve far enough left to embarrass a few otherwise rats take advantage of the opportunities. Stopped the DC pro crook changes even though that one apparently needed Biden’s approval.
Lord, is that Sackett case STILL GOING ON?! It should’ve been settled long ago...in favor of the Sacketts.
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