On the recordJanuary 20, 1995
this is a day for which we have long waited. Those of us who have served at the local level of government have held out hope that one day Congress would awaken to the damage done by unfunded mandates. That day is today. When I first began public service as a member of a county planning commission, I carried into office what turned out to be a naive notion. I thought that our community's elected officials were free to do what they best believed served the citizenry. In some respect, that was--and is--the case. However, what I failed to factor was Uncle Sam's ability to determine what's best and to make us pay for it--like it or not. Imposing obligations on local government from distant beltway bureaucracies, but without Federal dollars to pay for them is wrong, wrong, wrong. H.R. 5 will right it.
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