Political Quotes

“I appreciate the chairman and his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of overriding President Biden's veto of H.J. Res. 27. Overriding the veto would get rid of a Biden administration rule that hurts American landowners, small business owners, and farmers. Back in 2020, the EPA addressed a longstanding problem. It got rid of a broad and confusing definition of waters of the United States, also known as WOTUS, and replaced it with a definition that was much more specific and easier to understand. But no good deed is left unpunished. Mr. Speaker, landowners need to know if their body of water meets the definition of a WOTUS, because if it does, then it is subject to much, much stricter environmental regulations. Of course, the Biden administration is doing what it does best, and it is messing up the situation. It is like my dad used to say about education: The problem we have with education is we called in the people who created the problem to fix it. That is what they are doing. It repealed that clear definition of a WOTUS from 2020 and replaced it with a more confusing and ambiguous one. This means a lot more landowners, small business owners, and farmers will need to hire expensive lawyers and consultants just to figure out if their body of water now qualifies as a WOTUS. This is another example of bringing in the bureaucrats to fix a problem that they have created. A lot of my constituents are farmers and landowners, of course. Many are both of those.…”