States Rights Task Force a Good Idea

Republican Lawmakers Launch States’ Rights Task Force

A group of Republican lawmakers launched a task force on Thursday that seeks to reclaim the powers they say the federal government has unconstitutionally taken away from the 50 states.

The 10th Amendment Task Force, a project of the Republican Study Committee, will develop and promote proposals that aim to usher in what supporters are calling a “New Era of Federalism.”

“When federalism is out of balance, people get hurt,” Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, one of the group’s 10 co-founding members, said at a news conference Thursday. “We want to empower state and local governments.”

“We’ve trampled on the 10th Amendment many times and we will monitor pending legislation to try to stop that,” said Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, another co-founding member.

The other task force members are: Reps. Tom Price of Georgia, John Culberson of Texas, Scott Garrett of New Jersey, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Michael Conaway of Texas, Jason Chaffetz of Utah, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Doug Lamborn of Colorado, and Tom McClintock of California.

Why It’s Needed

States have the right to protect themselves from federal government overreach. However, not all state legislatures are doing their duty to protect the people in this manner, NH in particular.

As the wealthy agents of the Communist Party gain more and more control over the current party that controls all branches of government, we are seeing more and more plans to take away freedoms that we have taken for granted, and more federal impositions are being leveled against us such as what came with the health care reform boondoggle. Often these federal impositions stem from international groups, NGOs, who shouldn’t even have any right to make demands over what the US does. The Small Arms Treaty and Rights of the Child are two that come to mind.

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