[barryparr]

First, federal action on this issue is not happening in the near future, when this issue needs to be addressed. To say it's a federal issue is to say that it shouldn't be addressed.

Second, huh? That's an argument for total deregulation at the state level and abdication of the state's responsibility to protect its citizens.

[sqdbps]

Protect them from what? this is a partisan knee jerk reaction to goings on in DC. More importantly these actions are potentially detrimental to local companies the interests of which are intertwined with the state's.