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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, May 19, 1995                   TAG: 9505190081
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                 LENGTH: Short

ADVOCATES OF STATE POWER CONVENE

About 325 people, including lawmakers from about 40 states, convened Thursday in Richmond for the American Legislative Exchange Council's national summit on state sovereignty.

Gov. George Allen, a Republican who has appointed a Virginia task force to study ways to transfer more power from the federal government to the states, will be the keynote speaker at a luncheon today.

The GOP is leading a movement to wrest more control from the federal government and return it to the states. The council is a bipartisan group, but spokesman Noel Card said its membership is about 65 percent Republican.

Allen called the summit ``a nonpartisan effort to get us focused on how we can get government closer to the people. It will be, as far as I'm concerned, part of the same sort of effort we're pushing for in our Commission on Federalism and Self-Determination.'' 


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