States Go Full Throttle to Limit Feds -Hundreds of Bills Looming in Legislatures on Common Core, NSA, Marijuana

Bob Unruh / WND

It’s only days, a few weeks at most, into the 2015 season for state legislatures, and already there are hundreds of bills looming that are challenges to the power of Washington, on issues ranging from Common Core to marijuana and the National Security Agency, according to a new report.

Officials with the Tenth Amendment Center, who track legislation at the state level, said already they have listed some 200 state bills that are “seeking to block or limit federal power.”

“Sponsored by both Democrats and Republicans, these bills range from narrowly focused legislation that would allow terminally ill people access to experimental drugs and medical treatments despite FDA regulations, to bills that would deny resources and assistance from states to the NSA. Other legislation addresses the Second Amendment, the federal prohibition of hemp and marijuana, Common Core, the use of drones for surveillance, the Affordable Care Act, and even federal grant programs that arm local police with battlefield-ready military equipment,” the center said.

Center Communications Director Mike Maharrey told WND that the observed “dissatisfaction level” in states is far higher now than the group has seen before.

While such bills, such as a series several years ago trying to say that the federal government had no regulatory authority over guns made and sold inside a state’s borders, have been rising each of the last several years, this year there was a marked jump.

200 and counting

From about 100 bills monitored last year to more than 200 and counting this year already.

He said the rejection of Washington’s micromanagement is “broad-based” as well as “bipartisan.”

Many of the bills, he said, “are going to pass.”

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