The House on Thursday voted in bipartisan fashion to reject President Biden's bid to expand the Environmental Protection Agency's jurisdiction over streams and wetlands.
The measure was approved 227-198 to block Mr. Biden’s rule known as the Waters of the United States, regulations set to take effect later this month that Republicans say would jeopardize farmland with small bodies of water like creeks or ravines that could fall under federal protection.is expected to pass it next week with the support of at least one Democrat: Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia.
Democrats say the rule, which falls under the purview of the Clean Water Act of 1972 and largely reinstates regulations rolled back under former President Donald Trump, is crucial to protect the nation’s water supplies and that concern about its scope impacting farmers is overblown. The resolution is the third privileged motion in as many weeks that House Republicans have passed to keepDemocrats off balance, with the others focusing on D.C. crime laws and mixing 401 investing with climate change.
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