When it was obvious that Congress didn't have the votes to move the cap-and-trade bill, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved on to Plan B: bypassing the House and Senate altogether. Instead of waiting on Congress, agency officials decided on the next best thing--imposing the emission rules without any input from Capitol Hill. As we speak, the EPA is putting the final touches on a set of regulations that would kick thousands of businesses off U.S. soil and close the doors on countless others. Those of us lucky enough to survive the corporate crunch will be staring down huge jumps in food, housing, and transportation costs.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) points out that giving bureaucrats this type of unilateral authority is a recipe for disaster. She and 41 of her colleagues are trying to put the brakes on the agency's power grab with a special resolution of disapproval. If S.J. Res. 26 squeaks through the House and Senate, it would go a long way to rolling back the global warming agenda. In fact, experts say it would probably gut some of the ridiculous environmental push--a push that would affect everything from big business and manufacturing plants to small farms, nursing homes, country schools, and hospitals.

As Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy.) points out, every industry that uses "fossil fuels to heat, cool, light, or run... its operation" would be affected. More than a million of them would need EPA permits just to function. And according to Tom Borelli's great op-ed in Townhall, this whole process "could cost [taxpayers] over $15 billion to process just one type of permit nationwide." For most Americans, it's a double whammy. Business owners would be hit on the front end, and taxpayers will be hurt on the back. Sen. Murkowski's resolution lands on the Senate floor in two days. On June 10, Congress will decide who's in charge of setting American policy: elected officials or unelected bureaucrats. Let your elected representatives know where you stand. Contact your senators and tell them to support S.J. Res. 26.


Tony Perkins... Family Research Council - Washington Update 6/8/10

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.'


Theodore Roosevelt in 1907