I don't think any of them ever ran a school district. And some of the consequences that flowed from that legislation on ...
Let's keep to a minimum the intrusive regulation that just makes things harder to manage, harder to govern, and without ...
I think he makes the argument for why we need to have a commission that tees up those very issues.
To be on the receiving end of unfunded mandates, whether they be Federal or state--I was a local government guy--is not ...
To me, that's almost self-evident because--to this enormous question--but we haven't had a seat at the table.
if you think the Federal Government has never been involved in school construction, I'll be glad to take you to Mount Ve...
It is time to address that kind of thing.
My hope is we will get this bill on a bipartisan basis so that we can get back to work and expand the dialog.
I was stunned by the statement, and it told us a lot about need for improvement in intergovernmental relations.
It just puts local governments, who have the primary burden of delivery of services, in a straitjacket.
My friend, Rob Bishop, after two years of looking at this, hardly a liberal Democrat, came to the same conclusion: We've...
I mean, if there's a place where we have the intersection between the Federal Government and state and local governments...
the rainfall amounts and intensities of the storms are increasing, and it is a trend.
It is going into the Wisconsin floodplain and then the Illinois floodplain.
Absolutely. Again, going back to the stormwater storage aspect, the wetlands aspect, and the floodplain issue, we believ...
Isn't there something wrong with deporting the dad and keeping the infant?
That's true, Mr. Cheriyan, but that doesn't let us off the hook.
I wish we could give you a promotion and a raise. Thank you so much, Congresswoman Lawrence.
