A purple-haired Democrat congresswoman would like you to know that, no matter what the Supreme Court justice says, you don’t have to listen because no one has a “right to deny climate change.” And the left is calling this a victory for purple-hair.
So, yeah, if you’re a Republican and needed a reason to vote in this fall’s midterms — think about what happens when people like Connecticut Rep.Rosa DeLauroand her party are in control of the House of Representatives.
For those who are unfamiliar with DeLauro, she’s the 83-year-old representative for Connecticut’s 3rd Congressional District who adorns herself like she went to a Phish show in 1991 and never left. No shame upon that, except jam band fans tend to be mellow and despite being an octogenarian and the ranking Democrat member of the House Appropriations Committee, she seems a little more Rage Against the Machine-centric than anything else.
On Monday, she had an exchange withLee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, about regulatory authority. Despite the fact that the discussion was — at least once you look at it — nuanced, the pull-quotes that left-bubble social media took from her harangue were “You do not have the right to say climate change does not exist, that it’s a hoax!” and “I don’t have to listen to this BS.”
The idea of celebrating this as a win was curious on a number of levels, but celebrate it lefties did — like clip-mongerAaron Rupar, for instance, who framed it as DeLauro being “fed up with Lee Zeldin’s arrogance and condescension.”
“The budget proposal reads like a climate change denier’s manifesto,” DeLauro told the EPA administrator. “When climate change is flooding our streets, poisoning our air, driving up health care and disaster costs… how can the EPA justify abandoning that duty to protect Americans through appeased polluters under the false flag of economic growth?”
Zeldin’s response was professionally lacking in DeLauro’s histrionics.
“Following the law — Section 202 of the Clean Air Act — where does it say anything about fighting global climate change?” Zeldin responded, pointing to a Supreme Court decision known as “Loper Bright.” That’ll become important in a second, although it flew over the head of most — including Rep. DeLauro.
“Maybe others are not, I’m not,” she said. But let me ask …”
“That’s really important as a member of Congress,” he said. “Loper Bright says that we as an agency don’t have the authority to get creative if Section 202 of the Clean Air Act.”
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