VAIL: Officially state that more 300 state lawmakers to focus on the human side of public policy might be a bit much to hope for unless you bring them all together in the rarified Colorado Rocky Mountain air and have they stay four days at the Vail Cascade Resort and Spa.
That’s what state Sen. Nancy Todd, D Aurora, had in mind as chair of the Council of State Governments West, which held its 68th annual meeting in Vail last week. More than 500 staffers, lawmakers and other state and federal officials attended.
Chuck Poplstein, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s state director, said one solution to federal overreach and unfunded mandates would be passage of the Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny, or REINS Act, which requires that both chambers of Congress have to sign off on any federal rule with an annual cost of $100 million or greater.
