SHE WON'T GO!
A few weeks ago on a conference call with reporters, Congressman Ed Whitfield (R-01) spoke truth to power:
“We want to keep passing things on the House side that would reverse things EPA is doing simply because we’d like to see those 22 Democratic senators up for re-election next year vote on some of this,” he said.
It was a nice moment. So rarely (or, you know, all the time) do Republicans make it clear that they have no interest in creating jobs for Americans or focusing on real and pressing issues or even doing anything to protect public health and that really they’re just playing a pathetic (and kinda dangerous) game of politics.
And it was so nice, Reuters picked it up and ran with it, syndicating Ed’s words to G-d’s ears.
Emboldened by their success wresting concessions from the Obama administration in debt-limit talks, House Republicans now plan an assault of similar vigor on the Environmental Protection Agency.
Republicans, backed by wealthy conservative lobbyists, are determined to stop the EPA and what they see as an activist agenda that is costing jobs and hurting corporate profits.
“Right now for House Republicans one of their important rally cries is that EPA regulations are excessive and even abusive,” said Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program.
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Representative Ed Whitfield, another leading Republican on energy policy issues, said that outside the debt talks his party will hammer away in hearings and through legislation on its themes that the EPA has been killing jobs and growth.
Whitfield said Democrats, especially those from energy-intensive states such as West Virginia and Ohio, should know it will be a major issue on the campaign trail.
“We want to keep passing things on the House side that would reverse things EPA is doing simply because we’d like to see those 23 Democratic senators up for reelection next year vote on some of this,” Whitfield said.
The Reuters report is long, more of an analysis really, and if your blood pressure’s too low at the moment, check it: Analysis: Republicans turn sights on “activist” EPA
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