[org.whodat]

Dear sonny, you are a fool, a proposed rule cannot change state law. Now read up on what the state law is in VA about CDLs and farmers. Which is about the same in every state.

[ilovesarah2012]

Obama can just sign an executive order. “Stroke of the pen, law of the land”.

[SargeK]

The Feds can, and routinely do, compel states to change their laws. The cudgel they use is witholding Federal highway money.

They did it to impose the 55 mph speed limit, raise the drinking age to 21 in all states and to lower the presumptive limit for DUI to .08 percent BAC.

So long as the states are dependent on Federal money, the Feds call the tune.