Posted on 04/10/2011 8:56:13 AM PDT by Nachum
Lost in the kabuki-dance drama of last week's budget showdown were immensely important votes in the Senate and House on the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to govern through regulation. In the House, 19 Democrats joined the Republican majority in a decisive 255-172 vote to defund the EPA's attempt to circumvent Congress and begin its own cap-and-trade program. The measure was introduced by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton of Michigan. A companion measure introduced in the Senate by Sen. Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who is the ranking minority member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee,
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Shut down the Employment Prevention Agency.
hahaha
defund, amen
Thank you, Fred Upton of Michigan
HOORAY Fred Upton and Jim Inhofe!
Defund/dismantle EVERY collectivist/collective.
I not only would like to see this corrupt agency shut down, I would also like to see those bastard that made it so corrutpt being sent to prison.
The continuing legacy of Richard Nixon.
The 172 that voted for funding should be watched carefully ... they are sure to have more than one Iron in the fire.
TT
The EPA will never get defunded. All the liberals need to do is threaten a shutdown and the pubbies cave.
We can dream but the night is dark and deep and we have many miles to go before we sleep.
If not numbered, at least defanged.
The electorate is really ignorant; it doesn't realize that the EPA is just one of many permanent wealth-suckers whose function is an elaborate fraud. It is an example of Congress' deliberate dereliction of duty that has cost us dearly. It is an example of passing the buck and claiming innocence in the resulting abuses and frauds perpetrated by non-elected bureaucrats.
If nothng else, the EPA should be returned to the status of an advisory board only, with checks and balances to prevent arbitrary, capricious and expensive rules and requirements which have the weight of law.
Our elected representatives should not have the option of evading that responsibility.
At the very least, a permanent change should be clearly made to return the obligation of imposing costly rules and Laws to Congress, where it can both take the heat, or be replaced by someone more competent. No more "we have no control over the EPA" Bullshit.*
When was the last time a law-making bureaucrat got replaced for abusing their authority and resulting in the waste of taxpayer hundreds of billions$??
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