WASHINGTON, D.C. – Both of Mississippi's U.S. Senators - Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith - voted March 29 with the majority to overturn the Biden administration’s Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. The Senate voted 53-43 to approve a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval to stop the new WOTUS rule finalized by the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to vastly expand federal government regulatory reach under the Clean Water Act. “Landowners and businesses need regulatory certainty, and the President has failed to provide it," Wicker said in a media release from his colleague's office. “No one needs a puddle on their property to be regulated by the federal government,” Hyde-Smith said. The Small Business Administration office estimates that the WOTUS rule will affect 43,500 small businesses in Mississippi, from agriculture and fishing to construction, and manufacturing. The House of Representatives approved its WOTUS CRA on a 227-198 vote this month with the support of Mississippi Republican congressmen Trent Kelly, Michael Guest and Mike Ezell. (Hyde-Smith 03/29/23)
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