Washington, D.C. — Iowa Congressman Randy Feenstra says any federal regulation that would impact over half of American farmland should be approved by congress. The U.S. House has voted to insert Feenstra’s proposal in a budget bill for the Department of the Interior. Feenstra says American farmland belongs to American farmers, not unelected bureaucrats.
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling this past May limited the authority of the EPA to regulate wetlands, ruling the agency may only regulate wetlands that have a continuous surface connection to other bodies of water, like streams, rivers or lakes.
