George Voinovich: “But to answer the question of the Senator from Delaware, from my perspective, the passage of this bill would be the most…”

“But to answer the question of the Senator from Delaware, from my perspective, the passage of this bill would be the most egregious unfunded mandate we have seen since 1995, when the unfunded mandates relief legislation was passed. It seems to me we still have Members of this body who were around when unfunded mandates relief legislation was passed and there was great support for it. It seems to me those who supported it at that time should give some real consideration to the fact that we are about, if this were to pass, to have the biggest unfunded mandate, as I said, since that bill passed.”