Feingold Bill Gives ALL US Water To The Feds!
In April, 2009, Senator Feingold (D-WI) introduced (and gathered 24 co-sponsors already) legislation, S. 787, to fundamentally change the definition of “water” under control of the federal government.
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http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.787:
SEC. 4. DEFINITION OF WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Section 502 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1362) is amended–
(1) by striking paragraph (7);
(2) by re-designating paragraphs (8) through (25) as paragraphs (7) through (24), respectively; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
(25) WATERS OF THE UNITED STATES- The term `waters of the United States’ means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of the tide, the territorial seas, and all interstate and intrastate waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing, to the fullest extent that these waters, or activities affecting these waters, are subject to the legislative power of Congress under the Constitution.’
SEC. 5. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.) is amended
(1) by striking `navigable waters of the United States’ each place it appears and inserting `waters of the United States’
(2) in section 304(l)(1) by striking `NAVIGABLE WATERS’ in the heading and inserting `WATERS OF THE UNITED
STATES’; and
(3)by striking `navigable waters’ each place it appears and inserting `waters of the United States”
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Senator Feingold’s Offices
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Middleton |
Milwaukee |
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La Crosse
425 State St., Room 225 La Crosse, WI 54601-3341 (608) 782-5585 |
Wausau
Firstar Plaza 401 5th St., Room 410 Wausau, WI 54403 (715) 848-5660 |
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Green Bay
1640 Main Street Green Bay, WI 54302-2639 (920) 465-7508 |
Washington, DC
506 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-4904 (202) 224-5323 TDD (202) 224-1280 Fax (202) 224-2725 |
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Quick scan of the net - russell feingold « Who parks the cars? said this on May 12, 2009 at 5:40 pm |
Thanks for the form letter…good idea! I only get about 100 hits per day at my site, but that’s 100 that may have missed your letter so I posted it here http://normanhooben.blogspot.com/ …
Thanks, and keep up the good work…we love Sarah!
There is no place to click on to send this letter to our Senators. This site could be made more user friendly. Thank you.
Sorry for any confusion and thank you for writing, PS. Suggestion is to write to the addresses (or fax) at end of letter as email would not produce results but here is Feingold’s email anyway:) . Also, on right hand side of site is a Contact your Elected Officials Link. Hope this helps, PK, take care.
http://feingold.senate.gov/
Cross posted here:http://normanhooben.blogspot.com/2009/05/water-gift-of-god-may-be-stolen-by.html