The U.S. House of Representatives is continuing its assault on clean water, trying desperately to secure the title of Worst Environmental Congress in our nation's history.
Today, despite valiant attempts by a number of congressional clean water champions, the House continued their irresponsible dirty water roll.
The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee passed H.R. 4965, legislation that would weaken the ability of the Administration to protect the our nation's waters. The vote in the committee was 33-18 in favor of this irresponsible legislation.
Last week, the dirty water caucus scored another notch in their collective belts, when the full House voted 152-267 (with 42 Not Voting) to defeat Congressman Moran's Clean Water Amendment to the Energy and Water Development 2013 Appropriations Bill. The Moran amendment would have eliminated language (Section 110) in the Appropriations Bill, which would bar the Army Corps of Engineers from restoring longstanding Clean Water Act protections to critical streams and wetlands across the nation. Section 110 will endanger America's waterways and put the interests of polluters over those of the public.
The current obsession by many members of the U.S. House of Representatives with weakening protections for our nation's waterways and drinking water supplies makes one wonder, what are they drinking on Capitol Hill? Ironically we know it is not tap water since expensive bottled water is brought in for hearings and events, because of concern about contamination. Clean Water Network Executive Director Natalie Roy commented, "As Marie Antoinette might have said, "Let them drink bottled water!"
