Senate Moves to Block What GOP Sees as Obama’s EPA Small Waterways Power Grab

By Published on November 3, 2015

The Senate voted Tuesday to advance a measure to block the Obama administration’s new regulation asserting federal authority over small waterways.

The vote came just over an hour after Senate Democrats blocked a procedural vote on a related bill from Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to go back to the drawing board and re-write its waters of the United States rule.

 The successful vote, passed 55-43, moved forward a resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), a rarely-used tactic that allows for a simple majority to disapprove of any regulation with no 60-vote threshold

Read the article “Senate Moves to Block What GOP Sees as Obama’s EPA Small Waterways Power Grab” on thehill.com.

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