On the recordJanuary 13, 2016
Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Ohio for yielding me time, and I support S.J. Res. 22, which rejects the Environmental Protection Agency's waters of the United States rule. This rule is just another one of EPA's many attempts to expand its jurisdiction and increase its power to regulate American waterways, even if that means invading Americans' own backyards. The Science, Space, and Technology Committee's oversight hearings revealed that the EPA made arbitrary decisions in writing this rule and justified it with phony science. And the Government Accountability Office found that the EPA's use of social media to promote the rule actually violated the law. The Obama administration will do anything and say anything to impose its liberal agenda on the American people. I urge my colleagues to support S.J. Res. 22 and disapprove the waters of the United States rule.
