House passes bill to block broad Environmental Protection Agency rules

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Source: Reuters

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would block a number of broad regulations to reduce unhealthy air emissions.

Passage of the bill was expected in the Republican-controlled House, where lawmakers have targeted Environmental Protection Agency air rules, saying they would kill jobs and laden businesses with billions of dollars in additional costs at the worst possible time.

“The Obama administration is moving too fast and showing little regard for the economic consequences of their energy and environmental policies,” said Rep. John Sullivan (R-Okla.), who sponsored the bill.

The vote on the so-called Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation, or TRAIN, was 249 to 169. It was supported by fewer than 20 Democrats.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-passes-bill-to-block-broad-environmental-protection-agency-rules/2011/09/23/gIQAV1WorK_story.html

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Here's the roll call 741; Democrats are in italics.

So far, the closest action that the Tea Party House has done so far about JOBS is to pass a bill that restrains the NLRB. Otherwise, they're doing nothing but deregulation, obstruction, and dawdling until Obama loses the election.

[Angry Dragon]

1. I do not see the weeping boner's name listed at all

[midnight]

2. John Sullivan protests to much... If he really cared about the economy

he would stop our corporations from taking jobs out of the country, repeal the bush tax cuts, and end the bush wars...

[Lorien]

3. More GOP "death panels"; killing us by killing our environment. nt

[TomCADem]

4. House Speaker Boehner Is Presiding Over the 112th Congress - Worst In History!

Ignoring jobs, the economy, and basic science.

Unfortunately, the corporate media covers up them, so people blame Democrats and give Republicans a free pass. Rather than trying to work with Democrats in Congress, Republicans act more and more extreme. Thus, hardly any bills are emerging from Congress, except extreme right wing screeds out of the House.

[RushIsRot]

5. The damned fools have a death wish. Not only for us, but themselves as well.

I wonder what they envision as a substitute for breathable air. One cannot breathe money!

[newfie11]

7. canned air that they will be happy to sell to you. n/t

[ElboRuum]

10. You mean like this?

[newfie11]

11. LOL LOL n/t

[MFrohike]

6. I have a half-assed idea that's tough to express

The money an industry spends to comply with the Clean Water Act, for example, doesn't disappear into the ether. It gets diverted into other industries, or subsets of the original industry, that should be doing the job of compliance. This spending should, note I said should, create employment opportunities. In the real world, companies outsource specialized functions all the time because it's cost effective. Why shouldn't they outsource their compliance issues? It could function sort of like an accounting firm (insert Arthur Andersen joke here).

It just strikes me that the GOP is very much in the business of "picking winners and losers" which they always claim is bad. Instead of fostering some spirit of innovation, they choose to stay with the status quo. Creating new opportunities for job creation and money-making seems like something the party of markets would want, doesn't it?

P.S. Yeah, I do get why they do what they do. I'm just trying to craft a practical argument, using their buzzwords, to fight their zero-sum view of environmental stewardship. Feel free to tear this apart and make it better. In fact, please do that. I'd like to know if I have the beginnings of an idea or I should quit while the hole is only an inch deep.

[WhiteTara]

8. Why don't we use the filibuster and deny them passage?

:shrug:

[No Elephants]

9. The Senate has been blocking a lot of the nutter stuff coming out of the Rethug House.