Political Quotes

“I continue the quote: Should Congress revisit this area and enact legislation, providing a clear indication that it intends States and localities to implement flow control, we will, of course, defer to that legislative judgment. So we have a range of judgments that we can make, including that it is appropriate for State and local governments to continue to implement flow control, those communities which had done it in the past and those which might like to do it in the future and those which have done it in the past which have paid off indebtedness and wish to continue to utilize it. It is within our power to place the decisionmaking as to whether to use flow control or not in the hands of literally tens of thousands of local government officials, as opposed to centralizing that decision in Washington, with the judgment that is contained in title II of this legislation, which essentially is: Thou shalt not engage in flow control unless you were doing it before May 1994 and, even then, only for the period necessary to pay off your indebtedness and, in no case, more than 30 years from now.”