[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 2 (Thursday, January 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H129]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


             DISMANTLING THE IDIOCRACY OF UNFUNDED MANDATES

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, 1 year ago today I announced my candidacy 
to represent the Sixth District of Arizona.
  During these past 365 days, I have listened and learned a lot 
traveling the width and breadth of the district that in square mileage 
is the size of the State of Tennessee.
  One recurring and overwhelming sentiment shared by my constituents is 
an absolute repudiation of unfunded Federal mandates.
  In fact, one mayor in my district has coined an interesting term for 
the entire process of oppressive overregulation--he now calls the 
Federal bureaucracy the idiocracy.
  It is estimated that this idiocracy will cost State and local 
governments nearly $16 billion in 1995 alone. That comes at the expense 
of my children's future, the prosperity of the hard-working men and 
women of my district, and commonsense governance.
  During these next 99 days, we have a historic opportunity to 
restore--the Jeffersonian ideal of a limited and frugal federal 
Government as we enact our Contract With America. Let us work together 
to dismantle the idiocracy.


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