One of the Reason Elections Count

The  different government agencies who make "regulations" where lawmakers have not been able to pass laws may have met their match.  In many cases it is to be hoped they have.
This is from Politico.

GOP plans strategy to stymie EPA
By ROBIN BRAVENDER
Republicans plotting their offensive against the Obama administration’s environmental policies are eyeing a powerful weapon that would force the Democratic-held Senate to schedule votes on nullifying controversial regulations.
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“We’re not going to let EPA regulate what they’ve been unable to legislate. And if I’m chairman, we’re going to have a very aggressive, proactive schedule,” Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the likely incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, told POLITICO.

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