WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) announced that the U.S. House of Representatives intends to vote on H.R. 5078, the Water of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act of 2014, when they return to session this month. The legislation would stop the radical rule proposed by EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to redefine and expand the Clean Water Act. Congressman Huelskamp, a co-sponsor of the bill, issued the following statement:

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“Washington bureaucrats want to regulate every drop of water including road ditches, farm ponds, prairie potholes, swimming pools, water tanks, and rain puddles in Kansas and elsewhere. When this proposed rule was released earlier this year, I immediately joined with 230 of my colleagues, on a bi-partisan basis, to ask the Obama administration to withdraw it. In July, I spoke in favor and voted for the Energy and Water Appropriations bill which included a provision I asked for to defund the rule for the next year. And now I am pleased that House Leadership is scheduling this legislation for a vote as early as next week, so we can continue to push back against President Obama’s radical anti-agriculture agenda. Our farmers and ranchers need to be protected from this Administration’s unprecedented power grab. Washington must ditch this rule.”