HOW GOP PUT THE EPA AND THE USDE ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK TO ELIMINATE THEM!! (1308 hits)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Republicans in the House of Representatives have introduced bills to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Education.
Rep. Tom Massie of Kentucky sponsored the bill to end the Education Department. In a statement he wrote, "States and local communities are best positioned to shape curricula that meet the needs of their students."
Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a freshman lawmaker, found two co-sponsors to sign onto a bill that would end the EPA.
"I would take the resources that we use to fund the bureaucracy at the EPA and would downstream those resources to states and local communities. We can have people closest to environmental assets ascertain the importance of those assets and protect them appropriately and responsibly," Gaetz told WEAR.
Efforts to eliminate or make major changes to government departments aren't unheard of.
The 1996 Republican Party platform called for eliminating the Department of Education, as well as the departments of Commerce, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development.
Imagine if you live in rural areas, what your education would like if GOP has its way. Take a look at the state of education in America BEFORE Brown v. Board of Education.
The fact that this action by GOP comes one day after Betty DeVos was confirmed is a clue to hidden agendae.
