"prepared statement of"
"It is my hope that we can also discern issues that must be addressed in a legislative solution to our unfunded mandates."
"If I say that global warming is caused by manmade pollution, suddenly everything that we do that ever relates to global warming, it is we are saving the planet."
"Right. Well, there is a significant challenge for a local municipality that the Department of Transportation says your street signs are not reflective enough, so you have to change all of your street ..."
"I would like to be able to defer to Mr. Connolly, my ranking member, for 5 minutes of questions."
"This is a piece of legislation that desperately needs repair, and I am sure we will have very robust conversations on the solutions to repair it."
"But you would not suggest that we have a judicial review process or a legislative review that may come back over here, if there is a question that it comes back over for a legislative determination to..."
"There will obviously be significant rules that will come out of those, many of them with millions of dollars of impact on the economy."
"At some point it gets absurd. But you can always say, but it will save it a life."
"The application of it, though, will be interesting to see if it has political consequences with it as well."
"So just to clarify on it, $100 million nationwide, so $2 million per State, added altogether in aggregate, that suddenly becomes an unfunded mandate."