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Sheldon Whitehouse: “The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers' implementation of the Clean Water Act as an overreach…”

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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