Republican lawmakers on the House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee described the Biden administration’s Waters of the United States rule as an example of federal agency overreach at a Feb. 8 hearing of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee unit.
The hearing was part of a larger GOP effort to overturn the Biden administration final WOTUS rule released on Dec. 30. Led by committee Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.), 150 Republicans have signed on to a Congressional Review Act resolution to void the regulation expands U.S. water bodies protected under the Clean Water Act.