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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

Floor Speech

Date: March 9, 2023
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Graves for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, this is a case of no good deed goes unpunished.

Now, the ranking member, a good gentleman, and I can agree that we all want clean water. But this is just simply a Federal Government overreach. That is all it is. And, oh, by the way, I will remind everybody that it is only 2 months ago my friends on the other side of the aisle controlled this body, the other body, and the Presidency.

If they wanted to pass a law, then why didn't they?

It is because they can't pass a law.

This isn't about the Clean Water Act because the Clean Water Act still exists. This is about a rule made by bureaucrats down the street to control the water in your backyard.

Mr. Speaker, if you have a child's swing set where they have hollowed out underneath the swing set, don't you dare fill it in, otherwise severe penalties--criminal imprisonment--can be imposed on you.

This is absolutely outrageous, unnecessary, and must be stopped.

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