George Miller: “I rise in support of this. I think this amendment really highlights one of the concerns that we have, and that is to…”

“I rise in support of this. I think this amendment really highlights one of the concerns that we have, and that is to some extent some of the duplicity of the Governors who have come here and talked about unfunded mandates and the burdens that the Federal Government pushes on to the Governors, even if it is for a local purpose and a Federal purpose, and then those very same Governors turn around, do the same to local government in their States. They accept responsibility. Then they decide they cannot handle the financial aspects of it, they turn around to the counties. In our own State of California, in this last year, we have watched the Governor come and scoop up local revenues, take them to the State level, and then tell the counties that they had an additional burden for mental health and health care of individuals and for probation and all these other programs. They said you have to take care of it, but the money has now gone to the State. That historically has happened in State after State after State.”