{"id":22457,"date":"2023-03-25T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=22457&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=22457"},"modified":"2023-03-25T19:08:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T00:08:44","slug":"jason-smiths-bill-to-overturn-bidens-wotus-rule-passed-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/jason-smiths-bill-to-overturn-bidens-wotus-rule-passed-house-20230325","title":{"rendered":"Jason Smith&#8217;s Bill To Overturn Biden&#8217;s WOTUS Rule Passed House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Friday, March 17, 2023, U.S. Representative Jason Smith (Mo.) announced that the United States House of Representatives recently passed legislation he coauthored to overturn President Joe Biden\u2019s overreaching Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) Rule.<\/p>\n<h2>WOTUS<\/h2>\n<p>Biden\u2019s WOTUS rule would lead to sweeping changes to the federal government\u2019s authority to regulate navigable water, significantly impacting farmers, ranchers, small businesses, and private property owners.<\/p>\n<h2>Smith&#8217;s Statement<\/h2>\n<p>Representative Smith said that the WOTUS rule is very overreaching and that he will do anything he can to stop the government from gaining more power.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s Waters of the U.S. rule is government overreach at its worst&#8230; I\u2019ll continue pushing back against any and all attempts by this administration and Washington Democrats to grow the power of the federal government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>The Bill<\/h2>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s bill would help keep Missouri farmers, ranchers, and landowners in charge of the property they own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 17, 2023, U.S. Representative Jason Smith announced that the House recently passed a bill to overturn President Biden\u2019s overreaching WOTUS Rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[214,264,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22485,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22457\/revisions\/22485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}