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House Votes To Overturn ‘Overreaching’ Biden Water Rule
dailycaller.com ^ | 3/9/2023 2047 hrs est | Katelynn Richardson

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Philosophy; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenvoters; brianfitzpatrick; cleanwateract; commiegoals; dementiajoe; epa; pennsylvania; regulation; tyranny; water; wotus
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To: rktman

It’s getting to be time to start killing.


21 posted on 03/11/2023 9:04:13 AM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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Thank you for referencing that article rktman.

"House Votes To Overturn ‘Overreaching’ Biden Water Rule"


FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

While it's good that the House overturned Biden water rule, please consider the following.

When President James Madison vetoed the Bonus Bill of 1817, he wrote the statement below (3rd bullet) concerning the scope of Congress's Commerce Clause powers in the constitutionally required veto explanation.

Based on Madison's clarification of navigable water courses versus the post-17th Amendment ratification Congress's very limited Commerce Clause powers, the feds don't have the constitutional control over such water courses that they evidently think that they do imo.

Patriots, the bottom line is this imo. What is your threshold of “pain” for peacefully stopping unconstitutionally big state and federal governments controlled by bully, constitutionally undefined political parties, from oppressing the people under their boots?

The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification, corrupt political party treason (imo)...

All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.

If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.

If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.

With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.

In the meanwhile, I'm not holding my breath for significant MAGA legislation to appear in the first 100 days of new term for what may still prove to be another RINO-controlled House.

Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying RINOs for 2024 elections.

22 posted on 03/11/2023 9:40:07 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

Already tried that. Result was red wave crashed and burned in mid-terms. Abortion issue killed the red wave. Young weemen came out of the wood work to vote. So did young men. Normally they do not show up in large numbers.


23 posted on 03/11/2023 9:42:21 AM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: NorthMountain

I think the abortion issue has killed off any GOP agenda possible.


24 posted on 03/11/2023 9:43:16 AM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: Lazamataz

2A should come in play. Only way out.


25 posted on 03/11/2023 9:44:10 AM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: entropy12
"Need senate & executive branch to go along."

That is a mainstream GOP strategy...
All part of their decades-long circle-jerk strategy...

How many times did they vote to eliminate obamycare and dozens of other links in the chains we wear around our necks?
Yep, only while they have that wonderful excuse...

26 posted on 03/11/2023 10:09:04 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: entropy12

I think the “abortion issue” has killed more than 65 million people.


27 posted on 03/11/2023 10:23:20 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: entropy12

I think the “abortion issue” has killed more than 65 million people.


28 posted on 03/11/2023 10:23:21 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SuperLuminal

GOP likes to be the mninority party. That way they avoid getting blamed for deteriorating United States of America, but they continue to get rich in DC.


29 posted on 03/11/2023 10:24:23 AM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: NorthMountain

Correct, and it is now killing the GOP.


30 posted on 03/11/2023 10:24:55 AM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: entropy12

Josie Morris stealing water

https://www.bikeraft.com/a-long-distance-connection-on-the-green-river-josie-ben-morris/


31 posted on 03/11/2023 10:27:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Ex-Con777; GOPJ; DoughtyOne; Eleutheria5; Lazamataz
A court needs to smack it down on takings grounds.

If they can imprison political opponents without trial for years, hide exonerating evidence, and get away with it, do we have a judicial branch?

32 posted on 03/11/2023 10:47:22 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: entropy12
So ... what? Shut up about it? Let the literal killing of real people go on unabated, to possibly forestall the figurative killing of a mere political party?

After your performance during the height of covidiocy, I don't really have much respect for your opinions.

33 posted on 03/11/2023 10:49:51 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: rktman

WOTUS, the biggest federal land grab in history.


34 posted on 03/11/2023 10:52:19 AM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: Vaquero

I would say there is something wrong when it takes 100’s of elected official from the house and the senate to override one mans rule. In the real constitution- Presidents have no such authority to begin with.


35 posted on 03/11/2023 11:12:05 AM PST by Revel
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To: rktman

This has already been settled by the USSC in Rapanos v US and SWANNC.

States can tell the EPA to stick a sewer pipe up its butt.


36 posted on 03/11/2023 11:15:40 AM PST by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: rktman
Here is the Vote
37 posted on 03/11/2023 1:07:10 PM PST by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: BigEdLB

Thanks.


38 posted on 03/11/2023 1:11:48 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: entropy12
"GOP likes to be the minority party. That way they avoid getting blamed for the deteriorating United States of America, but they continue to get rich in DC."

Amen!

39 posted on 03/11/2023 4:25:22 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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