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US FARMERS and RANCHERS lose WATER Rights

PORKER

Well-known member
Senate Committee Approves Clean Water Restoration Act
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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Thursday approved by a vote of 12-7 six water-related bills. Included among these is a compromise version of the controversial Clean Water Restoration Act (S. 787).

The legislation reinstates the power of the Clean Water Act to protect all "waters of the United States,"replacing the term "navigable waters" and thus vastly expanding protection to the nation's surface waters.

Now they will control cattle drinking in ponds!!!
 

PORKER

Well-known member
Crapo warns he'll filibuster clean water bill
© 2009 The Associated Press
June 18, 2009, 6:07PM
, Idaho — U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo is threatening to use "every tool and privilege" he has to slow or stop federal legislation aimed at bolstering the federal Clean Water Act.

The Idaho Republican, who voted against the Clean Water Restoration Act Thursday, is among members of the GOP minority who contend the bill allows government oversight of everything from wet meadows to prairie potholes.

This comes after U.S. Supreme Court rulings in 2001 and 2006 that proponents of the bill complain have hamstrung the Clean Water Act in combatting water pollution.

Crapo says he is planning to filibuster.

Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups praised the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works' party-line, 12-7 vote, saying the measure would restore protections "muddled" by the Supreme Court rulings.

The livestock industry, including the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, wants the bill killed, on grounds it would "require cattle producers to manage around puddles in the middle of pastures."
 
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