Obama Using Regulatory Authority to Bi-Pass Congress

Letter sent today regarding Obama using his regulatory power to bi-pass Congress.


Senator Richard J. Durbin


Mark Steven Kirk

Representative Donald A. Manzullo



I'd like to remind you that you are a Senator from Illinois a State that has a high unemployment rate and a State that needs your attention to help us build up our economy. You were not elected by Barack Obama or Harry Reid. We need you to focus on our needs and not the Liberal Establishment. The Environmental Protection Agency is an out-of-control bureaucracy attempting an unprecedented power-grab, seeking to regulate every aspect of our lives and take control of the U.S. economy by shoehorning greenhouse gas regulation into the 1970 Clean Air Act. There is no worse tool than the Clean Air Act for this task, whose old fashioned, command-and-control regulations would devastate the United States economy.



The devastating impacts of allowing EPA to continue with its proposed regulations are easy to see. It is your responsibility as a Member of Congress to stop them. Not by replacing Clean Air Act regulation with another economically ruinous scheme like a cap-and-trade energy tax, but with clean preemption language that removes the threat.



There are efforts underway that I urge you to support. The most important is the Barrasso-Walberg bill (S. 228 and H.R. 750), which would clarify that the federal government should not distort any existing statutes to regulate global warming. Congress makes the laws in this country, and the Executive should not take action on this enormous issue unless and until Congress tells them to.



Additionally, the Inhofe-Upton bill (S. 482 and H.R. 910) is also an important effort that would preempt EPA’s distortion of the Clean Air Act by making clear that Congress never intended the Act to be used for greenhouse gases.



I urge you to cosponsor and support both of these bills and work to restore Congress’s proper role in the regulatory process.



Sincerely,

Jim Carlin

3641 Wintergreen Terrace

Algoquin, IL 60102-6368