And another topic.

Environmental groups are blasting a measure that they say will harm citizens who get their drinking water from wells, worsen flooding risks, and increase water costs for everyone.

Senate Bill 89, which rolls back protections for Kentucky's navigable waterways by aligning state regs with federal ones, will become law.

Coal companies tout the measure as relief from burdensome state rules that can hamper industry and home construction.

Most Democrats side with the state cabinet and environmental groups who claim current protections are working for nearly a third of Kentuckians who rely on well water, while Republicans maintain a rule change is long overdue.

A lot of us downstream who have public water systems that are filtered and treated will be okay, because we have mechanisms in place in those water treatment centers to take care of that pollution that is going to be added upstream, and it'll be taken care of by those treatment centers.

But it's going to cost more because we're going to have to treat those waters.

We're going to have to add more chemicals, because there's going to be more pollution before we can push it back out to safely drink it in our homes.

It absolutely makes no sense.

I challenge you to find any Eastern Kentuckian that thinks that the EPA hasn't done enough to regulate anything in eastern Kentucky.

I bathe my baby in water that comes from a deep mine in Fleming neon, Kentucky.

If I thought for a second that we were going to compromise the water systems of Eastern Kentucky, I would be voting no.

But that's not what this bill does.

I am ashamed of these environmental groups and their lying and fear tactics.

I don't blame the people at all for what they're hearing, and I'm sure that I'd be scared if I were told all these lies that have been told.

But the truth of the matter is, your waters are protected.

Your waters are protected.

Folks, if you look at the definition of navigable waters, it includes virtually everything but ditches and mud puddles, ditches and mud puddles.

So if you want to find some peop take it easy on the regulations, go to Eastern Kentucky, where, we are suffering from the lack of jobs from federal overreach and tell me that that federal overreach doesn't go far enough.

The House and Senate voted to override the governor's veto of Senate Bill 89 last night, and it will now become law.