On the recordMarch 3, 1994
Many Members have observed that this amendment is an unfunded Federal mandate because it would impose requirements on local school districts without providing them the funds necessary to implement the mandate. My colleagues who have labeled the amendment as an unfunded Federal mandate are correct. The Rohrabacher amendment, as drafted, would require local school districts to use their own resources in order to meet its requirements. Thus, it is an unfunded mandate. As the cochair of the congressional caucus on unfunded mandates and as the primary sponsor of legislation addressing unfunded mandates, I am adamantly opposed to enacting further unfunded mandates. I have taken it as a personal responsibility to amend bills or amendments that impose unfunded mandates so that our local jurisdictions will not be saddled with financing further Federal dictates.
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