we can rely on moral integrity of businesses to not pollute our nation s waters? this is ludicrous. i mean, i don t think anybody with a stra7íolbu face can say that this is anything about a huge grab of jurisdictional power at the end of the day. not every dang businessman has a lawyer in their pocket that they have on retainer that they can fight these things. democrats saying that they are very concerned about e.p.a. regulations coming down the pike clean water act. define water sources that the agency can and cannot regulate. we re back with our panel. judge, this seems to touch a lot of different issues. well, it touches a lot of very profound constitutional issues about the right to own and maintain private property. this is not the congress seizing this jurisdiction. this is an independent administrative agency proclaiming unto itself the power to regulate the tiniest bodies of water,
of business. i lease all of my property for grazing. this may have a chilling impact and landowners may say, boy, jack, i d love to help you out and lease pasture, but i m afraid you bring too much liability under the clean water act. reporter: a bipartisan group of 200 house members wrote to the epa earlier this month saying the proposal, quote, aggressively expands federal authority while bypassing congress, put things like ditches, drainages, pondses, marl and manmade, prairie, potholes and other occasionally other seasonally wet areas under federal control. the greatest expansion land grab, power grab that s ever occurred in the history of the epa. according to the administration s own sta tis it ticks in the last 90 days there were 6,734 newly proposed federal regulatory actions. no agency has more proposed rules pending than the epa. as to the newly proposed clean water act regulations, the agency says, quote, this
proposal would enhance protection for the nation s public health and aquatic resources and increase predict ability and consistency by protected under the act. many lawmakers are supportive, saying the very reason the epa exists is to make sure everyone plays by the rules. so do you really think that we can rely on moral integrity of businesses to not pollute our nation s waters? also at today s hearings, the business owners testified that the epa refused to speak with them about their concerns before drafting the new rules. the period for public comment is now open until july 21st. by the way, i checked in bret, nearly 63,000 comments filed on these rules. a lot of across the aisle unanimity. yes. up next, ukrainian troops blasted oust the air by rebels. first here s what our afill yts
and pushing carl s positive message of reform. to have it timed about a week before, thereabouts, causes maximum disruption to the campaign. so as an act of political vandalism, it arguably could be effective. reporter: a candidate for california s 52nd congressal district, it has been bamting both sides of the aisle with democrats and some republicans questioning his candidacy due to his being an openly gay republican. as the investigation into the break-in continues, the campaign insists whoever is responsible knew what they were doing and what they were looking for. our phone cords were cut. not just the cords to the foeps but the hand set cords were sut, our cable modem was stoebl stolen, our router, which leads us to believe that someone was trying to silence carl. reporter: demayo is expected to win one of the openings.
president and i urge the house of representatives to act. democrats were not happy. many believe the president increased deportations to record levels were led to believe the trend would be reversed and deportations slashed. i am disappointed, saddened, that you are not going to announce in the coming weeks the president said that he had instructed you to do a review. reporter: but the president has admitted the high deportation numbers are misleading because the administration includes in the total people captured at the border and immediately returned, which were never counted before. what they ve been doing is count morgue and more of those border people as formal deportations and fewer and fewer actual deportations inside the country. house republicans call the senate passed bill amnesty and refuse to consider it. john boehner and eric cantor both say responsible reforms are