[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 159 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 159

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Department of Labor should 
    provide adequate resources to the States to cover the costs of 
  developing and implementing the worker profiling system and should 
  provide the Governors with adequate flexibility to ensure that the 
   funds appropriated will be made available to provide reemployment 
                    services for profiled claimants.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 28 (legislative day, October 13), 1993

  Mr. Coverdell (for himself, Mr. Kempthorne, Mrs. Hutchison, and Mr. 
 Nickles) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and 
                               agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Department of Labor should 
    provide adequate resources to the States to cover the costs of 
  developing and implementing the worker profiling system and should 
  provide the Governors with adequate flexibility to ensure that the 
   funds appropriated will be made available to provide reemployment 
                    services for profiled claimants.

Whereas Federal regulation of State and local governments has become 
        increasingly extensive and intrusive in recent years;
Whereas such regulation has, in many instances, adversely affected the ability 
        of State and local governments to achieve their independent 
        responsibilities and meet their established priorities;
Whereas such regulation has forced State and local governments to use existing 
        revenue sources or generate new property tax revenues to enable them to 
        adhere to Federal mandates;
Whereas the resulting excessive fiscal burdens on State and local governments 
        also undermine the ability of State and local governments to attain the 
        goals of Federal regulations;
Whereas over 1,000 mayors through the United States Conference of Mayors 
        recognized October 27, 1993, as National Unfunded Federal Mandates Day 
        to call the attention of Congress to the fiscal emergency facing local 
        governments as a result of the onslaught of Federal unfunded mandates;
Whereas support was given to the National Unfunded Federal Mandate Day by the 
        National Association of Counties, the International City and County 
        Management Association, the National Governors' Association, the 
        National Conference of State Legislatures, and the Council of State 
        Governments;
Whereas the report of The National Performance Review, issued September 7, 1993, 
        states that ``the President should issue a directive limiting the use of 
        unfunded mandates by the Administration,'' and recommends that 
        ``Congress refrain from this practice''; and
Whereas the States must have adequate resources to implement effectively any new 
        requirements placed on them by Federal laws and regulations: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the Department of 
Labor should provide adequate resources to the States to cover the 
costs of developing and implementing the worker profiling system and 
should provide the Governors with adequate flexibility to ensure that 
the funds appropriated will be made available to provide reemployment 
services for profiled claimants.

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