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On the recordJanuary 24, 1995
We would still have that option, but we would have the costs in front of us and identified before we could act on that instead of being automatic. This is not a no-money-no-mandates bill. There may be an amendment offered to that later. This would simply put those costs in front of us, and we would have to affirmatively vote to waive the point of order before we could go forward with an unfunded mandate.
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Danny Davis
Democratic · Illinois

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Discussing the implications of a bill related to unfunded mandates.

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