1. As a practical matter, aides acknowledged, worries about damping border commerce made it unlikely that any state would impose fees. 2. -- Ruled that states may not impose their own special restrictions on contracts that require arbitration between the parties. 3. Administration officials said states could impose certain restrictions. 4. During the Depression, the state even imposed a nickel-a-pound tax on the product. 5. Even though Congress has resisted term limits, and courts have ruled that states cannot impose limits on federal lawmakers, many candidates are limiting themselves. 6. Eight years earlier, as a state legislator, Geringer sponsored a measure to allow the state to impose its own limits if the federal controls were ever dropped. 7. Federal transportation officials, however, have included in the bill permission for states to impose tolls on interstate highways and other innovative financing to make up the difference. 8. Federal rail safety laws say states cannot impose their own legal requirements if a railroad follows U.S. Transportation Department regulations, the company said. 9. For example, Kansans can get the drugs, but the state has imposed a cap on the spending. 10. Fourteen states have imposed limits on the number of consecutive terms that state lawmakers can serve. |