Providing for Congressional Disapproval of A Rule Submitted By the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense and the Environmental Protection Agency--Veto Message From the President of the United States (H. Doc. No.
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Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the chairman and his leadership.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of overriding President Biden's veto of H.J. Res. 27. Overriding the veto would get rid of a Biden administration rule that hurts American landowners, small business owners, and farmers.
Back in 2020, the EPA addressed a longstanding problem. It got rid of a broad and confusing definition of waters of the United States, also known as WOTUS, and replaced it with a definition that was much more specific and easier to understand. But no good deed is left unpunished.
Mr. Speaker, landowners need to know if their body of water meets the definition of a WOTUS, because if it does, then it is subject to much, much stricter environmental regulations.
Of course, the Biden administration is doing what it does best, and it is messing up the situation.
It is like my dad used to say about education: The problem we have with education is we called in the people who created the problem to fix it.
That is what they are doing.
It repealed that clear definition of a WOTUS from 2020 and replaced it with a more confusing and ambiguous one. This means a lot more landowners, small business owners, and farmers will need to hire expensive lawyers and consultants just to figure out if their body of water now qualifies as a WOTUS. This is another example of bringing in the bureaucrats to fix a problem that they have created.
A lot of my constituents are farmers and landowners, of course. Many are both of those. It is hard enough for them to take care of their land and follow these crazy environmental regulations without adding the burden of trying to figure out what these regulations are in the first place.
Basically what we have done is we have taken this away from the mom and pop farmers, the people who have inherited the land and who respect the land. No one respects the land more than a farmer, Mr. Speaker. We are replacing it with multinational globalist corporations who control politicians like the puppet masters that they are.
This administration needs to stop throwing bureaucracies at every situation it can get its hands on.
Mr. Speaker, it just doesn't work. This time it will hurt Americans who work hard to take care of their land and their businesses.
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