Is Uncle Sam Still Passing the Buck?: The Burden of Unfunded Mandates on State, County, and City Governments : Hearing Before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session, March 8, 2005

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21. lappuse - Federal mandate that may result in the expenditure by State, local, and tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100,000,000 or more (adjusted annually for inflation) in any 1 year...
20. lappuse - Mr. Chairman, and Members of this Committee. I am John D. Graham, Ph.D., Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management and Budget.
59. lappuse - Counties on this important issue and look forward to any questions that you and other members of the committee may have.
146. lappuse - Congress so designates in statute; or 7. relates to the old age, survivors, and disability insurance program under title II of the Social Security Act...
33. lappuse - Two often-cited examples of such conditions are the requirements for receiving federal funding under the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Those laws require school districts to undertake many activities — including, respectively, designing and implementing statewide achievement tests and preparing individualized education plans for disabled children — but only if they wish to receive certain federal education grant funds. The federal assistance...
72. lappuse - The Federal Government must be responsive to the growing needs of an increasingly more diverse society. A more equitable allocation of resources is essential for the Federal Government to meet its responsibility to provide an equal educational opportunity for all individuals.
40. lappuse - Governments, the National League of Cities, the US Conference of Mayors, the National Association of Counties, the International City Management Association and others.
146. lappuse - Federal regulation that— (1) enforces constitutional rights of individuals; (2) establishes or enforces any statutory rights that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap, or disability; (3) requires compliance with accounting and auditing procedures with respect to grants or other money or property provided by the Federal Government...
152. lappuse - UMRA's threshold for federal mandates in rules is limited to expenditures, in contrast to title I which refers more broadly to direct costs. Thus, a rule's estimated annual effect might be equal to or greater than $100 million in any year — for example, by reducing revenues or incomes in a particular industry — but not trigger UMRA if the rule does not compel nonfederal parties to spend that amount. Under title I, though, the direct costs of a mandate in legislation also include any amounts that...
62. lappuse - State legislatures, the 7,000 plus members of those legislatures, and the legislatures of our Nation's commonwealths, territories, possessions and the District of Columbia. Thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today about the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995.

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