Dale Bumpers: “Not yet. I am not trying to delay. I hope to be through here very shortly. I assume that the floor manager will wish to…”

“Not yet. I am not trying to delay. I hope to be through here very shortly. I assume that the floor manager will wish to move to table. As I said, my design is not to try to impede the unfunded mandates bill. But 80 percent of the people who walk through that door when the rollcall buzzer goes off will not have a clue as to what this amendment is about in a sense that they fully understand. As the Senator from North Dakota has just stated, this amendment is discretionary. It does not require the States to do anything. We have had 27 votes since we came back into session, and two Republicans defected on one vote. I do not expect any defections on this one. I am not anticipating a big vote. I am not anticipating prevailing, but this is an idea whose time, if it has not yet come, is coming. The National Governors Association, the National League of Cities, National Conference of Mayors, and National Association of Counties, all have strongly endorsed this measure. I think we can conclude from that that we really do not care what people think unless it comports with what we think. Now, Mr. President, last night, the senior Senator from Maine talked about what a burden this was. And I alluded to the fact that one of our very own Members, Senator Bennett from Utah, was one of the founders of a business that ships catalogs of office supplies all over the country, over $200 million a year in business.”