In Congressional records that could perhaps use more attention, a proposal from the avowedly pro-Trump Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry was roundly defeated in the House, which the Republican Party itself currently controls.
Perry was, in general, a supporter of attempts made by Donald Trump after the last presidential election to effectively secure an outcome other than the Biden victory that votes across the country showed. Perry specifically promoted Jeffrey Clark to the White House. Clark was then an official in the Department of Justice and supported Trump’s ambitions with regards to the election. In a vote held at the end of the month a couple of months ago — meaning March 29, the House rejected a proposal from Perry to abolish a portion of federal law that provides for U.S. action to curb pollution with the specific accompanying aim of improving the situation in another country.
That piece of previously established law is Section 115 of the Clean Air Act. If it’s found under evident provisions of those rules that certain pollution emanating from the United States is threatening public health in another country and that such country also provides legal recourse for the United States if the pollution pathway was reversed, then federal authorities are evidently directed to secure a change in approach from governors responsible for the pollution-causing sites. In the House vote on Perry’s ambition, only 96 members were recorded as backing the move, while 336 members voted no. Even just among Republicans, more voted no than supported the initiative, with 129 Republican members expressing opposition along with most House Democrats.
Essentially unilaterally slashing key portions of the federal government’s offices and actions has long been in vogue on the Right, whether they’re targeting the Department of Education or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is a federal law enforcement agency. Some have even backed abolishing the Internal Revenue Service.
