Joseph T. Burns said "It seems like it becomes more and more difficult, as time goes by, to attract men and women to public service, and especially to public service when there are elections. He brought a certain quality to this Senate. On his work on the Environment and Public Works Committee, he was sensitive to the environment and all the public infrastructure that we enjoy across this country. It just seemed to fit, because he had come here after being the mayor of Boise, ID. And his very first objective was to tackle this business of unfunded mandates. He took that issue on and provided the leadership, and finally we passed a law that unfunded mandates must be adhered to whenever we tell local government, State government that it is going to take some of your money to comply with the laws as passed by the Federal Government." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordOctober 10, 1998

It seems like it becomes more and more difficult, as time goes by, to attract men and women to public service, and especially to public service when there are elections. He brought a certain quality to this Senate. On his work on the Environment and Public Works Committee, he was sensitive to the environment and all the public infrastructure that we enjoy across this country. It just seemed to fit, because he had come here after being the mayor of Boise, ID. And his very first objective was to tackle this business of unfunded mandates. He took that issue on and provided the leadership, and finally we passed a law that unfunded mandates must be adhered to whenever we tell local government, State government that it is going to take some of your money to comply with the laws as passed by the Federal Government.

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Joseph T. Burns

Ohio

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Editor's note · Context

Reflecting on the contributions of Senator Dirk Kempthorne as he departs from the Senate.

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