Mike Conaway: “I appreciate Chairman Shuster's leadership on this issue. It is important that we go ahead and kill this proposed rule…”

“I appreciate Chairman Shuster's leadership on this issue. It is important that we go ahead and kill this proposed rule now because it will go final coming out of OMB, and that is a wreck. I rise today in support of H.R. 1732, the Regulatory Integrity Protection Act of 2015. I cannot stress enough the importance of this legislation to stop the Obama administration's Waters of the U.S. proposed rule and its damaging impacts on our country. This rule, in its current form, is a massive overreach of EPA's authority and will impact nearly every farmer and rancher in America. It gives the EPA the ability to regulate essentially any body of water they want, including farm ponds and even ditches that are dry for most of the year. {time} 1615 Bottom line: under the EPA's proposed rule, nearly every body of water in the United States can be controlled by Federal regulators. Mr. Chairman, I strongly support this legislation that forces the EPA and the Corps to stop moving forward with the proposed Waters of the U.S. rule and do as they should have done from the beginning--working with States and local stakeholders to develop a new and proper set of recommendations. I urge support for H.R. 1732. It is imperative that the administration listen to rural America. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr.…”