Senate Report Confirms Unlawful EPA Overreach, Need to Block WOTUS Rule

Statement

Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works released a report documenting numerous examples of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) illegally expanding authority over land and waters not under agency jurisdiction:

"The Obama Administration and desperate leaders at the EPA have continued their all-out assault on the Rule of Law and commonsense. The report released by the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the EPA and Corps have illegally expanded their jurisdiction beyond clear limitations on the Clean Water Act that have been imposed by the Courts and Congress.

"In a historic display of incompetence, today's Senate report documents that the EPA is literally making a mountain out of a molehill for one California farmer. This stunning spectacle of government overreach cannot be dismissed by Congress. Numerous case studies document that time after time this rogue agency has unlawfully regulated dry land, family farms and even puddles. I will continue leading the charge in the House to block the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) regulation and hold the EPA accountable to the American people. This lawlessness must cease."

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