Political Quotes

“I strongly oppose the gentlewoman's amendment as it seeks to strip a commonsense provision included in the base bill that will protect the American people from the EPA's new waters of the U.S. regulation, commonly referred to as WOTUS. WOTUS is a terrible Agency proposal that will have disastrous effects and economic consequences for agriculture, small business, property owners, municipalities, and other water users throughout the country. This job-killing, overreaching water grab being imposed by Washington bureaucrats is a dream killer for future generations and local economies. The EPA claims this new regulation was shaped by public input; yet we recently learned that the EPA used taxpayer dollars to unleash a propaganda campaign in an attempt to rally comments and support for this WOTUS regulation, despite the Anti- Lobbying Act which bans such actions. Furthermore, States and local governments that have traditionally managed these waterways and activities were not included in drafting the WOTUS regulation. The Agency failed to comply with the Regulatory Flexibility Act as required by Federal law and consider the new impact that the WOTUS regulations would have on small businesses. The EPA claims this rule is grounded in law; yet this overreaching regulation contradicts prior Supreme Court decisions by expanding Agency control over 60 percent of our country's streams and millions of acres of wetlands that were previously nonjurisdictional.…”