But opponents said the bill would impose a new, potentially costly federal mandate at a time when health costs and insurance premiums were rising rapidly.

Senators promised to pay close attention to the concerns of governors, who say the work requirements would impose costly new mandates on states.

Senate Republicans are also concerned about the magnitude of local aid reductions, and we support lifting costly mandates on local government.

To accomplish this, I recently voted to repeal the costly and burdensome new 1099 mandate for all businesses enacted by the Democrat health care bill.

Get rid of unnecessary, costly mandates that are hurting businesses and jobs.

He also fought on behalf of constituent health care needs by working with state agencies to reclassify a district hospital in danger of closing due to costly mandates.

Employers are likely to compensate for costly mandates by cutting jobs or lowering wage offers and fringe benefits, like health insurance.

Yet Albany still provides a smaller share of school budgets than most other states while continuing to impose costly mandates on local districts.

Last year alone, we provided millions of dollars in property-tax relief by removing outdated and costly mandates that we had asked our mayors to identify for us.

In June 2009, a Parliament administrative report showed that his office had cost the public 103,197 new lei in state-funded expenses (the costliest mandate).