Scalise on Latest EPA Overreach

Statement

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) today issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its Waters of the United States Rule:

"EPA's attempt to redefine "navigable waterways' to include every drainage ditch, backyard pond, and puddle is a radical regulatory overreach that threatens to take away the rights of property owners and will lead to costly litigation and lost jobs. The House is committed to fighting back against this radical policy, which is why we passed bipartisan legislation earlier this month to stop the EPA in their tracks from moving forward with this misguided proposal. It's time for President Obama's EPA to abandon these radical proposals, all in the name of protecting wetlands and waterways, that instead will only lead to more American jobs being shipped overseas at the expense of the American economy."

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