1.   Jeff Groscost actually wanted the Legislature to determine whether a species was truly endangered before the state enforced federal protections.

2.   Although some of the species will continue to receive federal protection, many will be entrusted to state agencies.

3.   Americans want the credibility of serious, uniform federal protection, such as that provided by the Coast Guard and Border Patrol.

4.   Among other things, the bill would completely redefine what kind of wetlands would have federal protection from development, an issue that has been furiously debated for years.

5.   And he fended off GOP efforts to add language that would have overturned Labor Department regulations granting workfare trainees the same federal protections as other workers.

6.   And the platform continues its hard line against any federal legal protection of homosexuals against discrimination.

7.   And she said that while federal law prohibits video stores and credit agencies from releasing private information, health records have no such federal protection.

8.   And, crucially, the choice for physicians is no longer between government interference and retail medicine but between insurance-company interference and federal protection.

9.   And they are regulated by states, with few federal protections.

10.   At a time when public TV wants more federal protection, the unsympathetic GOP is in control.