Yes, well done Newt. :bow:
I do think he's having a bit of a pipe dream though, if he thinks he can do anything to influence Lisa Jackson's (EPA) ruling.
This is a problem we have today - those Executive Branch Administrators (there's about 140 of them), they can make the law by decree! Just like Lisa Jackson is doing, and it's all perfectly legal, because Congress "re-delegated" them the authority to do that!
I look at it this way: we gave Congress a "power of attorney" to represent us - they are the only branch of government that's supposed to actually make law.
And they, in turn, have "re-delegated" much of that power to the Executive Branch! It's Congress's fault, not the President's. The Prez just does his job, but it's really Congress's job. That is a lot of power to put into one man's hands - but the worst part of it is, it's not really IN his hands, because in theory he doesn't have jurisdiction over the decisions of the administrators! (In practice he probably does, because they're political appointees, but i could give you several examples of one of the Administrators contravening the President's wishes and getting away with it).
Congress is very lazy, they don't even want to read their bills anymore. That was a nice move by Boehner, wasn't it? Wheeling in that entire bill on a dolly? lol!!!