Paul Coverdell: “I want to commend Senator Simpson from Wyoming for his amendment in the current debate. I am a cosponsor of it. I have…”

“I want to commend Senator Simpson from Wyoming for his amendment in the current debate. I am a cosponsor of it. I have not spoken on it directly this morning because last evening there was unanimous consent on my amendment that dealt with a sense of the Senate to call on the U.S. Postal Service to cease and desist from its audits and intimidating procedures they have used on private businesses with regard to the use of private carriers. But this morning, I want to visit something we hear more and more about in this Capital City and that is unfunded mandates. I voted against the proposal last year under the title of motor voter, and I warned at the time that it was an unfunded mandate and it was going to cause consternation in many of our States. Our general assembly in Georgia has just concluded its session and, indeed, as was predicted, they have been confronted with a Federal order, edict, mandate which has caused them to spend millions of dollars to solve a nonexistent problem.”