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On the recordMay 23, 2016
the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers' implementation of the Clean Water Act as an overreach of Government authority
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Criticizes the portrayal of Clean Water Act regulations as government overreach.

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