Political Quotes

“last year we had a bill which came out of the Governmental Affairs Committee, S. 993. It was a good bill, a bill that I believe had something like 60 cosponsors or more, 67 cosponsors, including the Senator from Ohio, the Senator from Idaho, and many others. It was a bipartisan bill with strong bipartisan support. The bill not only had the support of about two-thirds of the Senate as cosponsors, but S. 993, which came out of the Governmental Affairs Committee last year, had the strong support of the Governors, the mayors, local elected officials, the State legislators, the counties, the cities. We got letters about S. 993 last year, strongly urging the support of S. 993, going so far as to say that the Governors and the State legislators and the counties and the cities' mayors would oppose any amendments to S. 993. That is this document, October 6: The nation's State and local elected officials strongly urge the U.S. Senate to pass the state-local mandate relief bill, S. 993, before adjournment. Later on in the letter: We view all amendments as an attempt to defeat our legislation. The Conference of Mayors, in a letter to Senator Kempthorne last year said: On behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors, I am writing to express my strong support for the Kempthorne-Glenn bill, S. 993, and to urge immediate passage of the legislation by the U.S. Senate.”