Rep. Gosar Leads Bipartisan Appropriations Request to Defund EPA's WOTUS Rule

Today, Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after leading and submitting a bipartisan appropriations language request signed by 120 members to the House Appropriations Committee to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) from using appropriated funds for the "Waters of the United States (WOTUS)" rule, or any substantially similar rule:

"The EPA's illegal water grab runs contrary to previous Supreme Court decisions, state water law and existing compacts. If implemented, this new mandate will delay important infrastructure projects, kill jobs, prevent private property owners from utilizing their own property, result in unnecessary fines and cause considerable harm to our economy. Farmers, ranchers, job creators and the American people can't afford more thieveries of precious water supplies from the Obama bureaucracy. While federal courts have issued a temporary stay on the implementation of this lawless executive action, the House must act and utilize our Constitutional "power of the purse' to defund this terrible new regulation."

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