Pete Domenici: “obviously, the Senator from West Virginia can delay this bill as long as he wants. He can filibuster it if he would…”

“obviously, the Senator from West Virginia can delay this bill as long as he wants. He can filibuster it if he would like. He can talk all night tonight and talk all day tomorrow. But I think the facts of the matter are that this bill is clamored for by Governors, mayors and everybody that understands what has happened to the U.S. Government, taking over responsibilities from the States and mandating what they ought to do with States, cities, counties and others and then not paying for it. There should not be any doubt. This is a readjustment of the relationship between the Federal Government and the States. This bill, with a few little exceptions with reference to enforcement that, if somebody is serious about, we can explain and debate in half a day, this bill had cleared the Governmental Affairs Committee last year and was not before the Budget Committee as far as a report because we added a point of order to enforce a part of the Budget Act. That is the only significant enforcement change.”