Political Quotes

“in response to that, I cannot stand here and tell the Senator that there is an easy, quick answer to that. We would have to go through the example. We would have to determine is this a requirement that is now being put on the tribes? Is there a cost to that? Does the authorizing committee determine that there is a mandate in that new requirement? What is the cost of that mandate? Does it in fact exceed $50 million or is there any cost at all to the tribes to carry this out? There are many, many hypothetical situations. But I come back to the point that this is a process, a process that states that as we now proceed--and we will encounter some of these issues--we now know how we would proceed. We know the process. We would know that we can seek a waiver of a point of order. We know that after doing this for a few sessions we will begin to establish some precedents on what does and does not come under this department of the mandates. So, again, I believe that the process is in place and there is not going to be a quick and easy answer on all hypotheticals. But at least we know how we would get to the ultimate conclusion.”