Gary Condit

Mr. Chairman and Members, the amendment offered by the gentleman from Kansas [Mr. Roberts] is an honorable amendment. His intentions were clearly to deal with the unfunded-mandate issue. We did not want to get into the debate of my…

I think it is imperative that when we in Congress determine that there is an unfunded mandate attached to a piece of legislation, or as in this case, an amendment, we find a way to pay for it. That is what we are trying to do with this…

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…

Reclaiming my time, I will simply say there have been a number of Members in this House on both sides of the aisle that have approached members of the Unfunded Mandates Caucus and pointed out that this is an unfunded mandate. We tried real…

We clearly wanted to talk about unfunded mandates, and we have a consistent position on this, and that is that if the Federal Government requires local governments, States, and counties and school districts to do something that they think…

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…

no matter what the outcome of this is today, I come from California. And I think it is the responsible thing for us to do, is to vote to give funds for relief to California and the victims of the earthquake. I think that is the responsible…