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Special Counsel John Durham testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for nearly six hours.
In a bipartisan effort, Congress is pushing back against the Biden administration’s war on gas stoves.
The House passed two bills limiting the federal government from meddling with American gas stoves. The Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act, which had bipartisan sponsorship, passed the House with more than 25 Democrats voting in favor of the bill.
The House also passed the Save Our Gas Stoves Act, with more than 30 Democrats voting for it.
U.S. House Republicans and GOP Govs. Kristi Noem of South Dakota and Mark Gordon of Wyoming teamed up Thursday to rail against the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule to allow conservation leases on federal lands.
Noem and Gordon joined the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee for about half of a 4-1/2 hour hearing that saw Republican members raise familiar objections to the BLM’s proposal that would treat conservation as a use on the same level as mining, oil and gas development or livestock grazing.
In an apparent response to strident opposition from western conservatives, including Wyoming’s top elected officials, the Bureau of Land Management last week extended the public comment period for its new Public Lands Rule to July 5.
Environmental advocates have described the measure, which would put conservation on equal footing with energy development, grazing and other approved uses of public lands, as a clear-eyed strategy for addressing contemporary problems like climate change and habitat loss.
Colorado's U.S. Reps. Ken Buck, Doug Lamborn and Wyoming's Harriet Hageman want energy companies to remove decommissioned wind turbines from leased land before getting federal tax credits, arguing that burden should not fall on landowners across the Eastern Plains.
The House of Representatives voted on June 15 to approve a bill that could significantly shift federal regulatory authority away from the executive branch to Congress.
Lawmakers voted for the Separation of Powers Restoration Act, known as SOPRA, in a 220–211 vote. Most Republicans voted in favor of the measure, while most Democrats voted against it.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted in favor of H.R. 288, the Separation of Powers Restoration Act (SOPRA) – a bill that she cosponsored. The bill would require courts to apply de novo review to all questions of law, including agencies’ interpretations of statutes and rules. In addition, an amendment sponsored by Rep. Hageman was included in the final passage of H.R. 288 which would include interpretive rules, general statements of policy, and all other agency guidance as subject to the same requirements as statutes and rules.
The House passed a bill that would require major regulations from agencies to secure approval from Congress.
The Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act made it through on June 14 with 221 yeas and 210 nays.
The bill, also known as H.R. 277, can be read here.
In the hours before the vote, representatives debated multiple amendments to it.
Those who don’t think big government is coming after gas stoves should look at Tuesday and Wednesday’s vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.