Gohmert Co-Sponsors Regulatory Overreach Protection Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican East Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert is again targeting the Environmental Protection Agency. In a statement regarding the introduction of H.R. 594, the Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act, Gohmert says, �It is critical that this bill is brought to the House floor for passage then sent to the Senate for passage then on to the President. This bill is critical to reining in federal agencies who have engaged in a power grab to snatch Constitutional rights away from property owners, as well as local and state governments. The EPA is attempting to illegally expand the Clean Water Act (CWA) and grasp jurisdiction over water that is currently under control of states and private ownership.”

Gohmert continues, “The EPA has long since expanded beyond working toward a clean environment and has become a runaway, militarized, super power that eats liberties of Americans becoming bigger and more unstoppable with each set of rights it consumes. It must be prevented from speaking its whims into law after backroom bureaucratic deals. These unelected bureaucrats who have thumbed their noses at the written law in favor of their own cubicle-concocted regulations should not be allowed to grow any more powerful. States and local governments should be allowed to control their own water unless it is patently a national waterway. It is an honor to not only work with the bill�s author, Congressman Paul Gosar, but to also call him a dear friend.�