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On the recordApril 25, 2017
UMRA was designed to force the Federal Government to estimate and report how much its mandates would cost local and State governments, which was previously not the case.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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Virginia Foxx explains the purpose of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.

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