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The growing trend of federal preemption of state law threatens to limit the traditional role of states as the laboratories of innovative public policy.
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Most Americans stand united behind strong environmental and consumer protections. Yet Congress and the Bush administration are helping the oil, timber, banking and a number of other industries roll back protections that Americans have come to expect.
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Despite progress over the last 35 years, air pollution remains a major public health and environmental problem.
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The 2000 Scorecard looks at the most important public interest votes taken between February 1999 and March 2000 in the 106th U.S. Congress.
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The 2002 Scorecard looks at the most important public interest votes taken between January 2001 and April 2002 in the 107th U.S. Congress.
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The 2001 Scorecard looks at the most important public interest votes taken between February 1999 and December 2000 in the 106th U.S. Congress.
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The 2003 Scorecard looks at the most important public interest votes taken between March 1, 2001 and February 13, 2003 in the House and the Senate.
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The 2004 Scorecard looks at the most important public interest votes taken between January 22, 2003 and November 21, 2003 in the House and the Senate.
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The 2006 Scorecard looks at how members of the U.S. House and Senate voted on the most important public interest issues between February 9, 2005 and February 1, 2006.
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The Bush administration’s ideological commitment to states’ rights has been one of convenience rather than ideological purity.
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