Reaction & Commentary
WILL JUST HAVE TO WAIT IT OUT. MEANTIME THE SUPREME COURT DELIVERING MAJOR BLOW TO BIDEN’S CLEAN ENERGY AGENDA LIMITING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION’S AGENCY TO IMPLEMENT SWEEPING REGULATIONS WITHOUT CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL. JOINING ME NOW TENNESSEE CONGRESSMAN, MEMBER OF APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE. CONGRESSMAN, YOUR REACTION TO ALL OF IT BECAUSE BIDEN CAN START BY TAKING HIS LITTLE
SLIPPERED FOOT OFF THE CHEST OF THE ENERGY SECTOR. CONGRESSMAN: WELL, JOE BIDEN HAS FROM THE INCEPTION WITH HIS RHETORIC ON THE CAMPAIGN, WITH HIS EXECUTIVE PEN DONE EVERYTHING TO TOWARD EVERYTHING BUT ENERGY PRODUCTION AND WE HAVE HAD THE SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES COME UP WHERE WE NEED SECTOR AND AMERICAN
RESOURCES WHERE WE CAN PRODUCE AND COMPETE AND GET OUR ECONOMY BACK ONLINE MOREEN EVER AND HE’S PUT HIMSELF IN AN UNATTAINABLE POSITION AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS CALL A TIME LIEUTENANT, TELL LEFT-WING MINIONS TO SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN AND CALL ON AMERICAN ENTREPRENEURS AND HAVE A SUMMIT
DEALING WITH PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND FREE MARKET CAPITALISM, WHO UNDERSTAND THE ABUNDANCE AND APPRECIATE THE ABUNDANCE OF AMERICAN ENERGY AND GET OUR COUNTRY BACK ON TRACK. HE JUST WON’T DO IT BECAUSE HE’S SO BEHOLDING TO THESE IDEA LODGELY RIGGED LEFT-WINGER WHO HAVE HURT US FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS.
DAGEN: LIZ PEEK, JUMP IN HERE. I JUST WANT TO NOTE AFTER THAT DECISION FROM THE HIGH COURT YESTERDAY ON LIMITING, IT IS REALLY LIMITING A GOVERNMENT AGENCY’S POWER TO MAKE ITS OWN RULES BROADLY SPEAKING AND IMMEDIATELY PEOPLE ON THE LEFT, WELL-KNOWN DEMOCRATS WERE PULLING THEIR HAIR OUT ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE, THAT’S THE
GRAVEST THREAT TO THE WORLD. PRESIDENT OBAMA TWEETED THIS YESTERDAY, NO CHALLENGE POSES A GREATER THREAT TO OUR FUTURE THAN A CHANGING CLIMATE. EVERY DAY WE ARE FEELING IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION TODAY IS A MAJOR STEP BACKWARD, THIS FROM SOMEBODY WHO LIVES ON THE BEACH. [LAUGHTER]
DAGEN: HE’S CLEARLY WORRIED ABOUT IT. LIZ: I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT, DAGEN. IT’S SO HYPOCRITICAL. CONGRESSMAN, I READ THE DECISION ABOUT THE EPA IS NOT ONLY REIGNING THE EPA BUT ALL ALPHABET AGENCIES GOVERNING AMERICA AND PUTTING CONGRESS BACK IN CHARGE. I GUESS MY WOULD BE I GUESS IS
THAT HOW YOU READ IT AND IS THAT SOMETHING THAT CONGRESS WELCOMES OR THE FEELING THAT CONGRESSMEN CANNOT ACT ON MAJOR PROBLEMS AND THIS IS GOING TO CREATE GREATER DYSFUNCTION AND SORT OF A BIG STALL IN TERMS OF MOVING POLICY FORWARD? >> WELL, I THINK YOU READ THE POTENTIAL FOR THE OPINION
ABSOLUTELY CORRECTLY BUT STAY WITH ME HERE NOW. WHERE DID THIS AUTHORITY BEGIN FROM? IT CAME FROM CONGRESS. CONGRESS ORIGINALLY SHOULD NEVER EVER, EVER HAVE GIVEN UP ITS AUTHORITY TO THESE OUTSIDE EXECUTIVE BRANCHES. WE HAVE A GREAT BALANCE OF POWER IN OUR COUNTRY, OKAY, WE HAVE OUR JUDICIARY, THE SUPREME COURT, THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH
WHICH HAS CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS AND WE HAVE THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE, THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OUGHT TO DEMAND REGARDLESS OF THEIR POLITICAL PERSUASION, THAT CONGRESS TAKE BACK CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF OVERSIGHT, OF CONTROLLING THESE AGENCIES AND THE LIKE. THESE AGENCIES WHEREAS THE EPA, IRS, PICK THE LETTER AND AGENCY
OF THE DAY HAVE GONE TOO POWERFUL BECAUSE CONGRESS DIDN’T DO ITS JOB. WE SEATED THIS AUTHORITY AND LOST THE AUTHORITY AND SOME OF THE AGENCIES HAVE THEIR OWN COURT SYSTEM. THAT’S NOT THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE. WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO BASICS AND THAT MEANS CONGRESSIONAL CONTROL.
DAGEN: I WILL CITE TWO MORE AGENCIES PART OF THE BUREAUCRATIC SWAMP WHICH IS WHAT KIMBERLEY STRASSEL CALLS. THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND THE EVICTION BAN OVERTURNED AND THE OSHA, OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY ADMINISTRATION VACCINE MANDATE, AGAIN, COURT OVERTURNED. THIS IS A SHOT ACROSS BOWEL ABOUT GOVERNMENT OVERREACH BY FIAT, WHETHER IT’S BOWER
CONTRACT OR COMMANDER IN CHIEF. I WANT TO GET YOUR REACTION CONGRESSMAN TO THIS, BIDEN FLIP-FLOPPING AGAIN. HE NOW SAYS HE WILL BACK ENDING THE FILIBUSTER IN ORDER TO LEGALIZE ABORTION. LISTEN TO THIS. >> WE HAVE TO CODIFY ROE V. WADE AND THE LAW AND THE WAY TO DO
THAT IS TO MAKE SURE THAT CONGRESS VOTES TO DO THAT AND IF THE FILIBUSTER GETS IN THE WAY EXCEPT THE REQUIRING OF FILIBUSTER FOR THIS ACTION TO DEAL WITH THIS SUPREME COURT DECISION. DAGEN: BIDEN ALREADY HAVING TROUBLE FROM SOME MEMBERS OF HIS OWN PARTY. JOE MANCHIN AND KYRSTEN SINEMA
STRONG ON THEIR DEFENSE OF KEEPING FILIBUSTER IN PLACE, PERIOD. CONGRESSMAN. >> WELL, I THINK THE FILIBUSTER IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IF WE LOOK CONSTITUTIONALLY, THE ROLE OF THE SENATE AND I SERVE IN THE HOUSE IS CONSTITUTIONALLY DIFFERENT. REMEMBER, THE UNITED STATES SENATORS ORIGINALLY WERE NOT POPULARLY ELECTED. THEY CAME FROM THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
SO THE HOUSE HAS ALWAYS BEEN POPULARLY ELECTED. WE AMENDED OUR CONSTITUTION, I RESPECT THAT. SO NOW OUR SENATORS AND HOUSE MEMBERS ARE BOTH POPULARLY ELECTED BUT IN ORDER TO CURVE THE FERVOR, WHETHER IT’S RIGHT OR LEFT, THE SENATE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BUFFER, A BUFFER AGAINST RADICAL RAPID ACTION IN THE
HOUSE EITHER WAY. I THINK THE FILIBUSTER IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT. IT WAS FRUSTRATING TO US WHEN WE WERE IN THE MAJORITY. I HEARD SO MANY PEOPLE SAY WE HAVE THE HOUSE, THE SENATE AND THE WHITE HOUSE, WHY COULDN’T GET THINGS DOPE WELL, BECAUSE WE UPHELD THE FILIBUSTER. AND WHEN YOU UPHELD THE
FILIBUSTER, YOU UPHOLD THE ROLE OF A THE SENATE. OTHERWISE YOU WILL HAVE 100 IN EFFECT QUASI HOUSE MEMBERS ACTING UNDER VERY DIFFERENT SET OF RULES AND WOULD BE DETRIMENTAL TO THIS COUNTRY. I APPLAUD SYNEMA AND MAN CHIP FOR KEEPING THAT IN PLACE BUT BASICALLY WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO
CONSTITUTIONAL BASICS IN THIS COUNTRY. WE HAVE GONE SO AFAR. I APPLAUD THE HIGH COURT FOR REINING THE EPA AND OTHER AGENCIES BUT CONGRESS NEEDS TO STEP UP AND DO MORE WORK AND TAKE BACK MORE POWER AND USE THE POWER OF THE POOR AND JOE BIDEN, I JUST DOESN’T KNOW WHAT WE WILL
DO ABOUT HIM. HE’S GONE FROM LOST TO SUPER LOST. IT’S SO SAD.
