Federal Quotes

[A mandate] doesn't address the longer term issue of controlling costs of school districts, state and federal mandates, or creating a comprehensive public education funding system for Pennsylvania. - Scott Shewell

(The grants) are one of many things we're doing to try to revive the downtown. It funnels money received from state or federal government to individual property owners performing restoration or improvements on the fronts of their buildings. - Jim Fisher

(The Federal Railroad Safety Act) certainly was not meant to let the railroads kill or seriously injure people with immunity. - Mike Miller

(The federal government) is giving states the duty to monitor it, but the states are saying, 'We don't have the manpower. We don't have the resources'.... And the school districts are being told they can't regulate this that it's up to the states. - Jack Jennings

(The Federal Emergency Management Agency) has some pretty tight criteria to get any disaster relief. People need to take some initiative on their own. - Tom Kelley

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time. - Jim Arthaud