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Two House Democrats float Murkowski plan to block EPA climate rules
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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman Feb 27, 2010 03:27pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Ben Geman |
| News Date | Saturday, February 27, 2010 09:25:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Two centrist Democrats – Reps. Ike Skelton (Mo.) and Collin Peterson (Minn.) -- on Thursday floated a House version of Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) resolution to thwart upcoming EPA climate change rules.
Murkowski quickly emphasized the Democratic support.
“There is bipartisan and bicameral agreement that command-and-control regulations from EPA are not the right way to reduce the emissions blamed for climate change,” she said in a prepared statement Friday morning.
Peterson and Skelton chair the Agriculture and Armed Services committees, respectively, and Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) is also sponsoring their resolution.
The House and Senate resolutions would nullify EPA’s power by using the Congressional Review Act, a mid-1990s law that allows Congress to overturn regulations but the law has been used successfully just once.
The “resolution of disapproval” would overturn EPA’s “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases are a threat to humans. The finding is the legal underpinning for regulations that EPA plans to issue.
Murkowski currently has 40 co-sponsors for her plan, including three Democrats. She may bring the resolution, which cannot be filibustered, to the floor next month.
The resolutions face large hurdles clearing Congress and face a White House veto. But various Capitol Hill efforts to block EPA rules have already prompted the agency to slow down its plans. |
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