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Utah delegation from Washington urges state to prepare for devolution, stresses balanced budgets and transportation needs
Summary
Senators Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch, Congressman Bill Orton and Congresswoman Enid Waldholtz addressed the Utah House on federal priorities — unfunded mandates, balanced‑budget efforts, welfare and health care reform, and transportation funding — and answered questions from members.
A delegation of federal lawmakers visited the Utah House on Feb. 20 to brief legislators on Congress’s agenda and to discuss how federal changes could affect state priorities.
Congresswoman Enid Waldholtz told the House the 104th Congress is pursuing reforms to make federal work more transparent and to restrain unfunded mandates. "We applied 10 major civil rights and employment laws to the United States Congress," she said, and described efforts to eliminate subcommittees, ban proxy voting in committee, and use a stricter budget baseline. She urged a federal‑state partnership on welfare and health‑care decisions and highlighted constituent…
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