Gary Condit: “Mr. Chairman, I rise to make a general comment. I heard a few minutes ago one of the Members make reference to this is…”

“Mr. Chairman, I rise to make a general comment. I heard a few minutes ago one of the Members make reference to this is as a 100-day agenda, and what we are doing here today is doing what is not necessarily good for the country in the long term, but we are pushing a 100-day agenda. I want to make it perfectly clear, and excuse me for taking issue with you on that statement, but this is not a 100-day agenda that we are working on today. This is an issue that we have been coming to grips with for years. We have introduced unfunded mandate legislation years ago, not exactly the same legislation, but we have introduced a number of bills years ago, had hearings, formed caucuses. This is an agenda about unfunded mandates. This is not a Republican issue. This is not a Democratic issue. This is an issue about the American people, and we need to respond to it in that way, not that it is a 100-day issue.”