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William Tauzin: “If this gentleman had written the law, I promise I would have applied it to private mandates as well as public mandates.…”

On the recordJanuary 23, 1995
If this gentleman had written the law, I promise I would have applied it to private mandates as well as public mandates. I think we should. I like the part of the law that says we are going to evaluate the effects on private individuals and businesses. I think we probably ought to someday decide here in Washington that we are not going to create mandates out there for the good of the public at large that we make anyone individually pay for by themselves. For example, I am fighting, as Members know, a battle to make sure private property owners do not have to bear the burden of wetland protection or endangered species protection.
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William Tauzin
Republican · Louisiana
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Discussing the implications of public and private mandates in environmental protection.

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