You know, I look back and as we're getting ready to celebrate the 250th anniversary this summer, one of the things that I always like to stress is that The states are where the action that when our founders got together, they set up co equal parts of government, federal government, state government. What you want to do is you want to make sure that states remain the laboratories of democracy that could innovate. Now, in West Virginia, you're cutting red tape. (00:13–00:24)
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Asserts that the founding fathers established co-equal parts of government at the federal and state levels.
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