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Senate Uses Minimum Wage Increase to Push Anti-Regulatory Agenda 11/01/2005
The recently revised unfunded mandates point of order was invoked in the Senate to kill dueling amendments to raise the minimum wage, one of which included a Republican counterproposal to "offset" the wage increase with several pro-business anti-regulatory provisions. Read More

UMRA, Results Proposals Advance in Budget Resolution 05/02/2005
The budget resolution Congress finally agreed upon last week incorporated language that endorses the establishment of a results commission and marks the first steps in the direction of turning the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) into an insurmountable obstacle for new protections of the public interest. Read More

Local Governments Demand UMRA Changes to Avoid Accountability 04/19/2005
State and local governments addressed a Senate subcommittee and called for an expansion of provisions in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) that would further relieve them from their obligations to provide important public protections. Read More

GOP Threatens to Turn ‘Unfunded Mandates’ Into Roadblock 03/21/2005
Republican lawmakers in both the House and the Senate have fired the first shots in an upcoming battle to turn the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act into an insurmountable obstacle to legislation designed to address unmet needs.

House Republicans fired first by launching a series of hearings, and Senate Republicans followed up with an under-the-radar section in the budget resolution that uses UMRA to make it harder to pass laws such as an increase in minimum wage or improvements in civil rights protections. Read More