Joe Lieberman: “I want to reassure him that under this amendment, the motor-voter law would still have to pass the two hurdles, be…”

“I want to reassure him that under this amendment, the motor-voter law would still have to pass the two hurdles, be subject to the two points of order, and could be suspended in its impact if the Federal Government did not pay the costs of the State's implementing it because it is a unique governmental function. The State and local governments, in implementing the Motor-Voter Act are not competing with any private sector businesses. This is a delegation of responsibility that we put on the States uniquely unless, under the terms of the bill which are generally part of S. 1, there was an estimate that it would not cost $50 million in any given year of its implementation. So the example is a good one to indicate exactly how S. 1, if our amendment were adopted, would impact mandates, mandates uniquely on State and local governments such as motor voter or the large most costly mandates that I indicated earlier, and referenced specifically earlier, would still be faced with the two hurdles.”