Crapo: "The federal government has lost its way, because if it can target the Sacketts it can do the same to anyone."
WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, Senate Western Caucus member Mike Crapo (R-ID) delivered the Senate and Congressional Western Caucuses weekly address. In his remarks, Senator Crapo spoke about Mike and Chantell Sackett, a couple from north Idaho who were impacted by the Environmental Protection Agency's extreme redtape.
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"The EPA and other federal agencies seemed more interested in forcing compliance than giving any consideration to private property rights, individual rights, basic decency or common sense.
"The Sacketts are like any other honest, hardworking family, but their lives have been turned upside down because a federal agency was more interested in beating them into submission than doing the right thing.
"The federal government has lost its way, because if it can target the Sacketts it can do the same to anyone.
"We must rein in the federal government, but we need the help of ordinary people to do so. To those of you watching - call your senators and your congressmen, and tell them to step up and hold the government accountable.
"Our country's future depends on stopping this gross overreach of executive authority and restoring individual rights, private property rights and, most of all, good, honest government to its rightful place."
The Congressional Western Caucus and Senate Western Caucus are comprised of Members of Congress committed to protecting the interests and ideals of the West
