I hope your day is going well. Mine has been busy given we kicked off our Lowcountry Listening Tour yesterday

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I hope your day is going well. Mine has been busy given we kicked off our Lowcountry Listening Tour yesterday and continued early this morning in Summerville, but things continue to happen in Washington. Accordingly, I wanted to take a brief minute to share a thought on President Obama's so-called Clean Power Plan which, in essence, nationalizes regulations on power plant carbon emissions and mandates that states make 32% cuts in emissions by 2030. Regardless of where one might fall on the issue of carbon emissions, this issue is huge for the way in which it represents another challenge to our country's 200 year tradition of legislative process and balance of power. This is not the American way. Government by executive edict is not what has made our country strong. Our country's ability to digest and deal with ideas that can be cumbersome, explosive or even divisive is eroded when the President proposes yet again to go it alone.

There will be legal and legislative reaction...but in the debate that will come in September, I think it's also important Congress use its real power, which is the power of the purse, to defund unilateral ideas that have not gone through the vetting process that the Founders envisioned when they constructed an executive, legislative and judicial branch. Leadership will be hesitant to do this, but I think it's important that the Congress really push back against this unbridled push to enlarge executive power.

The following article sheds more light, and I would love to hear your thoughts…

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