Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you to all the witnesses for being with us this afternoon.
I want to follow up with Mr. Nighbor and some of his comments from earlier when he mentioned specifically that when he took his position he never thought he would be in a position of having to lobby state legislatures such as California and New York and some of the pieces of legislation that had been brought forward.
You even indicated that you thought they were some kind of coordination...and in a sense some of them are very similar.
One aspect concerns me, and maybe I can get your comments. Through the adjudication process we've been successful through WTO and NAFTA and so on, but on these actions taken through the states, is the federal government able to take action to rectify those types of injurious pieces of legislation?
Also, can you see these types of actions being expanded to other states? If so, are you now looking at doing any type of analysis on our job sectors and what impact it would have on jobs and our industry as a whole?