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Article: Balanced budget amendment studied at FAIR meeting. (Steering Committee on Finance, Administration and Intergovernmental Relations)
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- Nation's Cities Weekly
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- September 28, 1992
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NLC should support a federal constitutional budget amendment, but, only if: the amendment has an appropriate phase-in period, prohibits unfunded federal mandates, exempts all federal trust funds and provides for appropriate enforcement provisions. This was the recommendation to NLC's Board of Directors approved by the FAIR Steering Committee on a vote of 12 to 9 during their meeting September 18-19th in Alexandria, Virginia.
Meeting under the chairmanship of Tony Capizzi, Commissioner, Dayton, Ohio the committee devoted much of the time during their meeting to joint discussions of health care reform with the NLC's Human Development Steering Committee.
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