Story highlights GOP-led House passes resolutions to block EPA from implementing rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions

President Barack Obama is expected to veto the measures

Obama attended the U.N.-led climate change negotiations in Paris this week

Washington (CNN) Hours after President Barack Obama pushed for an international agreement to combat climate change, the GOP-led House of Representatives voted to block that effort and demonstrate the President didn't have support in his own country.

The House passed a pair of resolutions, largely along party lines, that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing rules the administration released earlier this year to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Both measures, already approved by the Senate in October, now go to the White House, which has already vowed to veto them. Democrats maintain Republicans don't have the vote to override any veto so they denounced the debate as a waste of time.

The resolutions cited Congress' power under the "Congressional Review Act" to weigh in on new regulations. The bills would prohibit EPA from enforcing limits on electric utilities and coal plants. Republicans on the floor said they deliberately held the votes the same day as the president's remarks at an international climate change conference in Paris to show the president faced opposition back home.

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