Rob Portman: “No. That is not what the bill does. The whole premise of the bill is if something is important enough for us to mandate…”

“No. That is not what the bill does. The whole premise of the bill is if something is important enough for us to mandate at the Federal level, to tell the States and localities you have got to do it our way, we ought to be able to step up to the plate and provide funding for it. This bill says there has to be, for the first time ever, first time ever, we have never had this in Congress before, a cost analysis of what the legislation is going to cost. How many times have you come up to the House floor and never had any idea what the cost is to State and local government of something you are going to vote on? Frankly, we have not had that information. That forces us to get that information.”