UNFUNDED MANDATES:DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN

From: Congressional Testimony | Date: March 8, 2005 | Copyright information

Congressional Testimony
03-08-2005
percentages have varied only slightly from one Congress to
another.
Most of the mandates that CBO examined would not have imposed
costs higher than the thresholds set by UMRA. About 1 percent of
the bills that CBO reviewed had intergovernmental mandates whose
costs exceeded the threshold established in the law, and another
1 percent had costs that could not be estimated. For
privatesector mandates, about 3 percent of the bills had mandates
whose costs were above the statutory threshold, and another 2
percent had mandates whose private-sector costs could not be
...

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