must be accompanied by adequate Federal funding”. During the 1990s, the National League of Cities took the case of unfunded mandates to Congress, testifying three times before Congress on the importance of not imposing unfunded mandates on cities, towns, and villages. On March 25, 1995, President Bill Clinton signed the Unfunded Mandate Reform Act into law, with the National League of Cities’ 1996 President Greg Lashutka, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, standing beside him. (5) In the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, Mayor Anthony Williams of Washington, DC “represented [the National League of Cities] interests very, very well,” according to Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge. The efforts of the National League of Cities, he added, helped create the Department of Homeland Security. (6) In 2017, Mayor Gary Resnick of Wilton Manors, Florida, testified before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee about policies to remove barriers to broadband deployment by reducing costs, avoiding preemption, and increasing “local input in Federal decision-making processes,”. (7) In 2020 and 2021, the National League of Cities worked in a Federal-local partnership to ensure economic relief for all cities in the United States. Whereas the National League of Cities is proud that 21 percent of serving Senators and Representatives, or 115 elected Members of Congress, are former local elected officials