House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement after a federal appeals court in Cincinnati, Ohio, blocked implementation of the Obama administration's Waters of the United States rule, an executive overreach released earlier this year by the Environmental Protection Agency:
"The WOTUS rule, put forward by the same agency responsible for this summer's epic environmental disaster in the Animus River, is a raw and tyrannical power grab. In May, a bipartisan House majority joined with more than 30 governors in rejecting this job-killing unilateral expansion of federal authority. I am encouraged that the judicial branch has blocked implementation of an egregious regulatory scheme that dooms landowners, small businesses, farmers, and manufacturers to a regulatory and economic hell."