House GOP Votes To Overturn Clean Water Protections

The Associated Press reports:

The House on Thursday voted to overturn the Biden administration’s protections for thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, advancing long-held Republican arguments that the regulations are an environmental overreach and burden to business.

House Republicans used the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to block recently enacted executive-branch regulations. The measure now heads to the Senate, where Republicans hope to attract Democratic senators wary of Biden’s environmental policies.

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The House has just voted to overturn @POTUS‘s Clean Water Restoration Rule, which protects many of our waterways from pollution.

This dangerous legislation would put wildlife and our communities in harm’s way.

The Senate must reject the #WOTUSCRA.https://t.co/JvFb8NJtIo

— LCV – League of Conservation Voters ? (@LCVoters) March 9, 2023

227-198: House passed legislation to block the Biden Administration’s Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule that defines what waterways are subject to federal regulation under the Clean Water Act. The disapproval resolution now heads to the Senate. pic.twitter.com/5bMoNUwA7E

— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) March 9, 2023

9 House Democrats voted Yes to block the Biden Administration’s WOTUS rule:
Bishop-GA
Costa-CA
Craig-MN
Cuellar-TX
Davis-NC
Golden-ME
V. Gonzalez-TX
Panetta-CA
D. Scott-GAhttps://t.co/tuOS4J81Qr

— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) March 9, 2023