Political Quotes

“there are two ways we are going to have an unfunded mandate provision apply. One is if it is legislation to be brought up, not existing legislation but new legislation, and if it is brought up in the Congress, it will have the cost analysis of an unfunded mandate and we will permit a point of order if there is an unfunded mandate above a certain amount of money, but we reserve the right of the Congress by majority vote to allow that legislation to go into effect anyway and to impose the unfunded mandate anyway. That is the congressional route. But there is another separate route where unfunded mandates can stop prospective actions, and that is in terms of regulations enforcing existing laws. So I take issue with the statement that existing laws are not going to be impacted. They are definitely going to be impacted. For example, if the Environmental Protection Agency wanted to adopt a regulation dealing with toxic emissions, emissions that are hazardous, that can cause cancer, can cause birth defects, if they want to under the existing Clean Air Act adopt regulations dealing with these toxic emissions, and if the source of the toxic emissions is a publicly owned facility, then the EPA has to do this long analysis about how much it is going to cost the publicly owned polluter. Now, I have no problem with that requirement. But let us understand what will be imposed upon the EPA to do this.…”