Providing for Congressional Disapproval of the Rule Submitted By the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency

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Mrs. BOEBERT. Mr. Speaker, I rise in favor of H.J. Res. 27. This resolution will overturn Joe Biden's latest attempt to expand the Federal Government's jurisdiction and regulate every aspect of our lives.

The decision to return to the 2015 WOTUS rule puts burdensome regulations that will devastate small businesses, manufacturers, farmers, home and infrastructure builders, local communities, water districts, and everyday Americans across my district in Colorado and the entire country.

In short, the EPA's job-killing WOTUS regulation expands Washington bureaucrats' jurisdiction over ditches and navigable waters, threatening property rights and water rights for our communities. Rural Colorado runs on water, and this unconstitutional regulation will harm our way of life.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague and chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Sam Graves, for his great work to protect private water rights. We all want clean air, we all want clean water, and we know that we do it right without bureaucrats getting in our way. I support this legislation.

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