President Biden issued the second veto of his presidency Thursday to protect a rule issued by his administration that set new bounds for which bodies of water are protected under the Clean Water Act.
the administration’s effort to expand the list of what waterways can be protected under the Clean Water Act as an “incredibly intrusive federal overreach.”“It’s time to ditch Biden’s WOTUS rule and stop these attacks on American farmers,” Graveson Twitter on March 29, when the Senate passed the measure. “We shouldn’t need a permission slip from some bureaucrat in Washington to take care of our own land.
The Senate approved the legislation last month under the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to overturn some executive branch regulations. Four Democrats — Sens. Jon Tester , Jacky Rosen , Catherine Cortez Masto and Joe Manchin III — voted in favor of the legislation alongside Republicans and independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema . In the House, the measure passed in a bipartisan vote of 227 to 198.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito , who shepherded the legislation through the Senate, on Thursday said that Biden, with his veto, is “ignoring the will of a bipartisan majority in Congress.
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