this includes things like irrigation ditches, isolated ponds even low points in the , landscape whereer might collect after heavy rain. the consequences of this federal authority will be severe. local land-use decisions will be driven by washington bureaucrats and this water rule is one of , thousands of regulations washington is churning out. in the final 15 months of the obama administration, washington bureaucrats are working overtime to finalize new rules on everything from prairie puddles to power plants. just this week, the white house released an ozone rule that will increase electricity costs and decrease reliability. in this administration's race to control more of what americans do every day it has lost all , perspective. the rules are based on ideology rather than practicality. the result is an explosion of expensive regulations and federal requirements on hard-working families. washington's assault on andy johnson in wyoming could be repeated across the country. the obama administration issued more than 2500 new regulations in the past six years. complying with these regul

i kind of dropped down into this irrigation ditch.me up over the top of the ditch, and i heard footsteps. i couldn't quite make out where it was. but it was getting closer. it was two turkish border guards walking along the top of the ridge that i was about to be going over. and i froze. i was curled up on the bottom thinking, stone, inanimate object. and i'm getting freaked now. it's like, that was really close. at one point, i heard dogs. and that freaked me out. for some reason, i took off my shoes and socks, these old beat up sneakers and socks, thinking if they were following my scent, these dogs would come and smell these sneakers and blow their noses out and they wouldn't be able to follow me anymore. it seemed like a good idea at the time. it was a terrible idea because now i'm barefoot, and i could feel my feet getting chopped up, and there were twigs and rocks. as i moved through these trees, i could hear -- i could hear water. i could hear the river somewhere up ahead. i was desperate, desperate to get to that river. i came

it's going to give washington bureaucrats control over everything from irrigation ditches to small natural ponds in someone's back sp backyard. this is unreasonable. where does it end? bipartisan majorities in the congress already say it needs to end now. i've introduced a bill that would direct the obama administration to come up with a new rule on the waters of the united states, one that protects traditional navigable water from pollution, which we must do, but it also protects farmers, ranchers, private landowners. we can do both. this legislation has 46 cosponsors -- democrats and republicans. we are telling the obama administration that enough is enough. republicans are also ready to take on some of these other outrageous rules, like the extreme new restrictions on power plants. that's what congress is going to be doing to stop the insanity of this out-of-control -- of these out-of-control regulations and regulators. we need to cut through the red tape. americans want to get back to work. they want to get our economy going again. congress needs to help them do it because this adminis

ditches that provide irrigation water to farms were closed for up to 10 days, in some cases leaving farmers high and dry. one rancher reported to me that he lost half of his second cutting of hay which is $8600 worth of hay. for a small rancher, that's a big deal. equally significant is the impact of the spill on the reputation of the organic farms that utilize the river. how can their reputations be restor restored. in another example, a local plant and tree nursery located on the banks of the river was threatened by the inability to use the river for watering purposes. owner tom bridge had to haul water at his own expense until arrangements were made for the water to be delivered until the river could be used again, but even that couldn't help bring customers in. tom estimates he lost $20,000 worth of business due to the declining customers during the period of the gold king incident. and sales have not recovered. in fact, tom estimates that his sales for the year will be down 1.25% from his projections as a result of this bill. as news of the incident spread, calls came in to our communi

ditches that provide irrigation water to farms were closed for up to ten days. in some cases leaving farmers high and dry. one rancher reported that he lost half of his second cutting of hay, which is $8,600 worth of hay. for a small rancher, that's a big deal. equally significant is the impact of the spill on the reputation of the organic storms that utilize the river. how can their reputations be restored when doubts about the quality of the water remain? in another example, the entire inventory of durango nursery, a local plant and tree nursery located on the banks of the river, was threatened by the inability to use the river for watering purposes. the owner had to haul water at his expense until arrangements were made for the water to be delivers and until the river could be used again. of even that couldn't help bring customers in. tom estimates he lost $20,000 worth of business due to the decline in customers during the period of the gold king incident. sales have not recovered. in fact, tom estimates that his sales for the year will be down 1.25% from hi

ditches that provide irrigation water to farms were closed for up to 10 days, in some cases leaving farmers high and dry. one rancher reported to me that he lost half of his second cutting of hay which is $8600 worth of hay. for a small rancher, that's a big deal. equally significant is the impact of the spill on the reputation of the organic farms that utilize the river. how can their reputations be restor restored. in another example, a local plant and tree nursery located on the banks of the river was threatened by the inability to use the river for watering purposes. owner tom bridge had to haul water at his own expense until arrangements were made for the water to be delivered until the river could be used again, but even that couldn't help bring customers in. tom estimates he lost $20,000 worth of business due to the declining customers during the period of the gold king incident. and sales have not recovered. in fact, tom estimates that his sales for the year will be down 1.25% from his projections as a result of this bill. as news of the incident spread, calls came in to our communi

this includes things like irrigated ditches, even low points in the landscape where water might collect after heavy rain. the consequences of this federal authority will be severe. local land-use decisions will be driven by washington bureau cap's, and this water rule is one of thousands of regulations washington is churning out. in the final 15 months of the obama administration, washington bureaucrats are working overtime to finalize new rules on everything from prairie puddles to power plants. just this week, the white house released an ozone rule that will increase electricity costs and decrease reliability. in this administrations race to control more of what americans do every day. it has lost all perspective. the rules are based on ideology rather than practicality. the result is an explosion of expensive regulations and federal requirements on hard-working families. washington's assault on andy johnson in wyoming could be repeated across the country. the obama administration issued more than 2500 new regulations in the past six years. complying with these regulations is expected