Raúl Grijalva: “The use of the Congressional Review Act has been categorized as reckless and extreme. The CRA was going to cause…”

“The use of the Congressional Review Act has been categorized as reckless and extreme. The CRA was going to cause significant and lasting harm. If successful, two things are going to happen: the regulation is void and the agency is prohibited from issuing another similar rule ever again. I mention that because this is about health. It is about the health of the people living around those mining operations and it is about mountaintop removal and the documented analysis that proves that it is a danger to health. It contaminates water and it is destructive to the environment. It is curious that we had 13 hearings--I stand corrected--and an investigation that went on in perpetuity, it seemed like. Yet, once the rule was finalized and published in 2015, we never had another hearing on the item again, which begs the question: If the whole point was to delay and prevent this rule from ever taking effect and, more importantly, make it susceptible to the Congressional Review Act, mission accomplished for the majority.…”