WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of his efforts to meet with Missourians across the state concerned about the Obama Administration’s continued executive overreach, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (Mo.) visited local farm families and agribusiness leaders on Wednesday at the Jackson family farm outside of La Plata, Mo. Blunt’s stop in Adair County comes on the heels of the U.S. House of Representatives voting to authorize Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) to move forward with a lawsuit in an effort to compel President Barack Obama to uphold his constitutional responsibility to uphold the law. For high-resolution photos of Blunt’s visit, please click here.

“Missourians are rightly concerned about excessive regulation by the Obama Administration, particularly the EPA’s burdensome energy, utility, and water policies, which affect potentially our whole state,” Blunt said. “There are other ways to deal with these important issues that won’t dramatically raise costs on consumers or serve as a blatant overreach into Missourians’ private lives and property, and challenging those excessive regulations is an important thing.”

Blunt continues to call for Congress to pass the “ENFORCE The Law Act,” legislation that he introduced to put a procedure in place to allow Congress to authorize a court case against the executive branch for failure to faithfully execute the laws. The ENFORCE the Law Act passed the House in March 2014. For more information on the bill, please click here.

In June 2014, Blunt joined U.S. Senator John Barrasso (Wyo.) and 28 colleagues to introduce the “Protecting Water and Property Rights Act of 2014,” legislation to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from taking over all private and state water in the United States.