Bipartisan groups of governors and state lawmakers held major gatherings in recent days where issues of state authority became a major focus. But governors and lawmakers said it requires bipartisan cooperation across the states to reset the balance of power. Spencer Cox said it’s easy for state leaders to champion states’ rights when the opposing political party controls the levers of federal power. Cox, who was in Oklahoma City this weekend for the National Governors Association summer meeting, has long championed a rebalancing of state and federal powers. States say they should leadIn Oklahoma City, governors sought to showcase a bipartisanship that has nearly vanished in national politics.