Unfunded Mandates PASSING THE BUCK

A REBELLION that started in the Department of Health of Columbus, Ohio, four years ago finally rumbled through the halls of Congress last month.

“Unfunded mandates”—the outcry of state and local governments—finally made it through the Senate Government Affairs Committee. Under the leadership of Chairman John Glenn (D., Ohio), the committee marked up a reform bill that would require Congress at least to note in passing that it is spending on other people’s accounts.