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Gary Condit: “Let me assure you this bill does not eliminate all unfunded mandates. What this bill does is it requires us to have some…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 1995
Let me assure you this bill does not eliminate all unfunded mandates. What this bill does is it requires us to have some accountability, for us to have the courage to come to the floor and to waive a point of order if we think it is important enough to do. It also requires us to attach a cost to this stuff. So you could have an unfunded mandate, you have just got to take some accountability for it. When EPA says something, you have to take the responsibility back home that you passed it. That is what this bill does. You can have some unfunded mandates if we think it is a national priority, and we probably should. But for someone to tell us that this absolutely says that all unfunded mandates are bad is incorrect and it is a betrayal of this bill.
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Gary Condit
California
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Discussing the implications of a bill related to unfunded mandates.

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