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What's Wrong with Sunset Laws

Randall, Ron | March 19, 1977 issue

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Reports that U.S. senator Edmund Muskie reintroduced the legislative bill Sunset Act on January 10, 1977 in the U.S. Congress. Information that the legislative bill died in the last session of the Congress as of March 19, 1977; Revelation that the bill requires termination of budget authority for all government programs every five years; Other features of the bill; Loopholes of the legislative bill.

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BILLS, Legislative; GOVERNMENT programs; MUSKIE, Edmund; LEGISLATORS -- United States; UNITED States

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