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On the recordFebruary 4, 2015
What would suffice as a strong enough standard that we would all feel comfortable preempting the 50 odd state laws that we would be looking at?
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

Editor's note · Context

Schatz questions the adequacy of federal standards for state law preemption.

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