"This measure would enforce a constant and ongoing re-examination of the role of our national government," he said. "… It is simply intended to require a scrutiny that we should look at what we enact and that, by doing so, we can slow the growth and reach of the Federal Government, and leave to the states or the people, those functions that were reserved to them by the Constitution."

Need something to keep rogues like Bush under control.

This is a great idea. One wonders why they did not think to pursue this law when Bush was president.

This should have been done when Lyndon Johnson was President and got passed his "War on Poverty", etc. Since his Presidency (I've always thought of it as the turning point), increasingly the Federal government has enacted laws (unfunded mandates) that were the States duties and powers, not the Federal government.