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If you just let states do their own thing, then you end up with state versus state competition and a truly horrible patchwork of different rules and regulations in different states, which is really not what you want. – Anthony Albanese	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our nation had a patchwork of underfunded, understaffed, poorly coordinated health departments and decades out-of-date data systems, none of which were equipped to handle a modern-day public health crisis. – United States	Found on CNN 2 years ago
From the beginning of the pandemic, there has not been a holistic response to keep renters stably housed and it is no different now, it continues to be a patchwork of protections for tenants. – Diane Yentel	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's not just Hyde that's under attack. There is a whole patchwork that goes together with Hyde. – Legislative Director Jamie Dangers	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Most folks, they just try to patchwork their operations and make it through, but having another significant drought so soon is definitely something that hurts those operations. – Ryan Jacobsen	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There was a broad segment of the membership that recognized that ultimately, what we needed to get to, is a legislative solution. Not a patchwork of waivers. – Jon Steinbrecher	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We're still having, now with this resurgence here in the United States, massive problems with our testing program, which is still kind of a patchwork of different testing going on in different states around the country. – Larry Hogan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Weve entered into a number of contracts and as we are getting closer to the date when shipments are supposed to come in, theyre getting canceled or theyre getting delayed, weve been told theyre going first to the federal government. Earlier in the week, Gretchen Whitmer complained that Michigan wasnt receiving clear directives and guidance from the federal government on how to handle the crisis. The coronavirus outbreak has sparked tension between President Trump. Frankly, a patchwork strategy of each state doing what President Trump can, were going to do it if we need to, but it would be nice to have a national strategy. – Gretchen Whitmer	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
A patchwork of voluntary measures from tech companies isn't sufficient — we need to pass the Honest Ads Act. – Amy Klobuchar	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A patchwork of different laws from different states will make unattainable the goal of providing a fair and level playing field. – The NCAA	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You end up with a patchwork that ecologically makes no sense. – Ken Rait	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There is a patchwork system across the country, we are calling for codification or increased consistency across the states. Either pass legislation, or improve existing legislation to better protect children. – Amy Artuso	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There should not be a state-by-state patchwork of differing laws and regulations. – Ron Main	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We went from a patchwork quilt of environmental regulations to federal regulations and federal standards for the very reason that you didn't have equal protection of all children. – Frederica Perera	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We want businesses to expand and create more jobs – not cut entry-level jobs because of a patchwork of local minimum wages causes operating costs to rise. Our actions today will create predictability and consistency for Alabama’s economy, which benefits everyone. – Jabo Waggoner	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We need to figure out how to make sure this is not a patchwork (of state regulations), we are pretty deep into looking at our regulatory framework that we currently have. – Mark Rosekind	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Training is still a patchwork quilt. – David Greenberg	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The FAA does not want a patchwork of regulations that deal with operation of model aircraft. – Mark Dombroff	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

If you just let states do their own thing, then you end up with state versus state competition and a truly horrible patchwork of different rules and regulations in different states, which is really not what you want.

– Anthony Albanese

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our nation had a patchwork of underfunded, understaffed, poorly coordinated health departments and decades out-of-date data systems, none of which were equipped to handle a modern-day public health crisis.

– United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

From the beginning of the pandemic, there has not been a holistic response to keep renters stably housed and it is no different now, it continues to be a patchwork of protections for tenants.

– Diane Yentel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's not just Hyde that's under attack. There is a whole patchwork that goes together with Hyde.

– Legislative Director Jamie Dangers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most folks, they just try to patchwork their operations and make it through, but having another significant drought so soon is definitely something that hurts those operations.

– Ryan Jacobsen

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There was a broad segment of the membership that recognized that ultimately, what we needed to get to, is a legislative solution. Not a patchwork of waivers.

– Jon Steinbrecher

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We're still having, now with this resurgence here in the United States, massive problems with our testing program, which is still kind of a patchwork of different testing going on in different states around the country.

– Larry Hogan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Weve entered into a number of contracts and as we are getting closer to the date when shipments are supposed to come in, theyre getting canceled or theyre getting delayed, weve been told theyre going first to the federal government. Earlier in the week, Gretchen Whitmer complained that Michigan wasnt receiving clear directives and guidance from the federal government on how to handle the crisis. The coronavirus outbreak has sparked tension between President Trump. Frankly, a patchwork strategy of each state doing what President Trump can, were going to do it if we need to, but it would be nice to have a national strategy.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

A patchwork of voluntary measures from tech companies isn't sufficient — we need to pass the Honest Ads Act.

– Amy Klobuchar

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A patchwork of different laws from different states will make unattainable the goal of providing a fair and level playing field.

– The NCAA

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You end up with a patchwork that ecologically makes no sense.

– Ken Rait

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is a patchwork system across the country, we are calling for codification or increased consistency across the states. Either pass legislation, or improve existing legislation to better protect children.

– Amy Artuso

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There should not be a state-by-state patchwork of differing laws and regulations.

– Ron Main

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We went from a patchwork quilt of environmental regulations to federal regulations and federal standards for the very reason that you didn't have equal protection of all children.

– Frederica Perera

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We want businesses to expand and create more jobs – not cut entry-level jobs because of a patchwork of local minimum wages causes operating costs to rise. Our actions today will create predictability and consistency for Alabama’s economy, which benefits everyone.

– Jabo Waggoner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We need to figure out how to make sure this is not a patchwork (of state regulations), we are pretty deep into looking at our regulatory framework that we currently have.

– Mark Rosekind

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Training is still a patchwork quilt.

– David Greenberg

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The FAA does not want a patchwork of regulations that deal with operation of model aircraft.

– Mark Dombroff

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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