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saturnsring

(1,832 posts) Thu Jan 21, 2016, 12:25 PM Jan 2016

McConnell presses Dems on Obama water rule veto [View all]

Last edited Thu Jan 21, 2016, 01:58 PM - Edit history (1)

The Senate is expected to take a procedural vote Thursday morning on the veto override of the Clean Water, or "Waters of the United States," rule. The veto resolution originally passed the Senate under the Congressional Review Act with 53 votes.

McConnell added that Obama's veto showed two things, that the president "apparently stands with Washington bureaucrats on this issue, not the American people" and that he "thinks Americans' clean water rules should be based on Washington politics."

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation extends the administration's oversight of small bodies of water, including streams and wetlands.

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/266568-mcconnell-pressure-dems-on-obama-water-rules

anyone know if this has happened?

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McConnell presses Dems on Obama water rule veto [View all] saturnsring Jan 2016 OP

Yertle is going to need a lot more than 53 votes to override a veto. hobbit709 Jan 2016 #1

I find this attack line stunning angrychair Jan 2016 #2

and the auto maker (i forget which one) stopped using it cause it was rusting their parts saturnsring Jan 2016 #3

General Motors Hayduke Bomgarte Jan 2016 #5

so mitch thinks the American People want to poison their kids....fuck off mitchie spanone Jan 2016 #4