{"id":1758382,"date":"2022-12-01T12:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758382"},"modified":"2022-12-01T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:34:23","slug":"maines-dem-congressman-takes-shot-at-biden-over-lobsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maines-dem-congressman-takes-shot-at-biden-over-lobsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine\u2019s Dem Congressman Takes Shot at Biden Over Lobsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaines-dem-congressman-takes-shot-at-biden-over-lobsters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758382&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">President hosts lobster dinner while putting lobstermen out of work, says Rep. Jared Golden<\/p>\n<p>    A lobster and President Joe Biden \/ Wikimedia and Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 December 1, 2022 12:30 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Democratic Maine congressman Jared Golden is attacking President Joe Biden for approving onerous regulations that put Maine lobstermen &#8220;out of business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House on Tuesday had 200 live lobsters shipped from Maine to Washington, D.C., for a Thursday State Dinner, prompting Golden&#8217;s ire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Biden White House can prioritize purchasing 200 Maine lobsters for a fancy dinner,&#8221; Golden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repgolden\/status\/1598108342396026880?s=46&#038;t=HroO1_zq_2tnc63ZzsoDdg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> from his official account, then the president &#8220;should also take the time to meet with the Maine lobstermen his administration is currently regulating out of business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;fancy dinner&#8221; Golden mentioned is in honor of French president Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p>A 2021 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)\u00a0regulation intended to protect the North Atlantic right whale would &#8220;shut down Maine&#8217;s lobster fishery by 2030,&#8221; sounding &#8220;a death knell for our nation&#8217;s lobster industry,&#8221;\u00a0Golden and other Maine lawmakers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/golden.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/golden-evo.house.gov\/files\/210224%20LTR%20to%20POTUS%20%28BiOpRW%20Rule%29%5B3%5D.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> last year to Biden. The rule would also not protect the whales, the lawmakers wrote, noting that since 2002, Maine lobstering has not caused &#8220;a single right whale serious injury or mortality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Golden, a Marine veteran, is widely considered a moderate, being one of only two House Democrats to vote against Biden&#8217;s American Rescue Act, which many economists say <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/this-study-shows-how-bidens-stimulus-contributed-to-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hiked<\/a>\u00a0inflation. Golden has also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/watch-this-new-biden-ad-reaches-levels-of-cringe-that-shouldnt-even-be-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condemned<\/a> Biden&#8217;s student debt cancellation scheme as &#8220;out of touch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Maine congressman&#8217;s moderation only goes so far, however. Despite his criticism of the lobstering regulation, Golden <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/this-congressman-boasts-support-for-maines-lobster-industry-he-voted-to-strengthen-the-agency-set-to-crack-down-on-lobstermen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted for<\/a> Biden&#8217;s so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which directs $6.27 billion to NOAA, the agency that passed the regulation. He <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-congress-votes\/jared-golden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">votes<\/a> with Biden&#8217;s position 87.5 percent of the time, according to <em>FiveThirtyEight<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Maine congressman Jared Golden is attacking President Joe Biden for approving onerous regulations that put Maine lobstermen &#8220;out of business.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Maine\u2019s Dem Congressman Takes Shot at Biden Over Lobsters appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":1758385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}