Political Quotes

“There are 800-some bills, which estimates were able to be made on the bills as I understand it in the last 12 years. That is where estimates could be made. And a whole bunch that could not be made. I do not think that the current law which requires that an estimate be made, some act as though there has not been a law on the books that requires these estimates of intergovernmental mandates to be made. There has been a law on the books. I am not sure many of us have read those estimates they have made, but nonetheless to answer the Senator's question directly, I do not believe it is applied to amendments. So, we are skating out on a new pond. The language applies this now to amendments, the point of order to amendments relative to intergovernmental mandates. When I say 'the law' I am talking about estimating the amount of the intergovernmental mandate, the mandate on State and local government. To try to directly address my friend's question, we do not know whether or not that threshold of $50 million per year some year down the road--could be 10 years down the road--is reached until we ask for the estimate.”