Political Quotes

“I believe we had thoughtful discussion about this bill. We also made progress on the consideration of several committee amendments and two amendments to those committee amendments. My hope is that we will complete work on this bill this week. There have been a number of encouraging developments, also, Mr. President, that have occurred since the bill came on the Senate floor. I would like to reference a few letters that I have received. This one I received from the American Farm Bureau Federation, which represents 4.4 million families. They say: We believe that Federal mandates to State and local governments must provide complete and continuous funding. It is our hope that information on the costs to the private and public sectors of proposed regulations and legislation will lead Congress to stop imposing burdens it is unwilling to fund. S. 1, the Unfunded Mandate Reform Act of 1995, will require the Congressional Budget Office to estimate and report the public and private sector cost, and any Federal effort to ameliorate that cost of proposed legislation.”