With efforts to repeal the health care law stalling on Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers in states across the country are turning to another tool in the Constitution to try to limit the law’s reach — interstate compacts.
To backers, it’s almost like discovering a secret weapon hidden within the Constitution. Compacts, which are roughly like treaties between states, have the force of federal law, and a coalition of lawmakers and conservative activists and academics say they could just as easily be used to pry back from the federal government some areas of responsibility, including health care.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/27/state-compacts-on-health-care-eyed-as-end-run-arou/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
To backers, it’s almost like discovering a secret weapon hidden within the Constitution. Compacts, which are roughly like treaties between states, have the force of federal law, and a coalition of lawmakers and conservative activists and academics say they could just as easily be used to pry back from the federal government some areas of responsibility, including health care.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/27/state-compacts-on-health-care-eyed-as-end-run-arou/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
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