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Dale Bumpers: “Certainly. So they say that because you goofed, we are going to take it upon ourselves to vastly reduce the mandate, no…”

On the recordJanuary 18, 1995
Certainly. So they say that because you goofed, we are going to take it upon ourselves to vastly reduce the mandate, no matter how critical it might be--it might be asbestos, water well pollution, or whatever, and they can say we are going to either severely reduce the requirement on the cities, counties, and States, or, two, we are negating the mandate. Now you are giving them an option, Senator. Even though we may have appropriated $90 million, to say that is not enough to get the water hot, so we are negating the entire mandate. Is that a fair reading of it?
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
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Discussing the implications of reducing federal mandates related to environmental regulations.

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