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  Chris Anderson

  Businessman and head of TED Talks

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  All laws should have a sunset provision that they expire in ten years unless someone is willing to actively defend them and get them renewed. Verified source (2024)

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  Libertarian Party of North Dakota

  North Dakota state Libertarian Party

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  34. We support sunset provisions on all state laws except those against real crimes, such as murder, rape, assault, battery, and fraud. Laws that have outlived their usefulness should be allowed to die peacefully without further legislative action. Unverified source

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  Libertarian Party (Australia)

  Australian libertarian political party

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  The solution to this problem is to routinely include a sunset clause in legislation. When a new policy is introduced it will automatically lapse within a certain time-frame, no greater than 20 years. If the policy continues to make sense and has popu... more Unverified source

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  Libertarian Party of Michigan

  Michigan state Libertarian Party

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  10. We advocate a sunset law requiring an automatic end to most government offices, agencies, departments, laws, regulations, taxes, and expenditures within ten years if not reauthorized. Unverified source

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  Libertarian Party of Missouri

  Missouri state Libertarian Party

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  Amend Missouri’s Constitution to require a ‘sunset clause’ for every new law. Unverified source

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  Libertarian Party of Minnesota

  Minnesota state Libertarian Party

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  6. “Sunset Laws” We advocate a constitutional amendment requiring an automatic end to all government offices, departments, bureaucracies, laws, regulations, and expenditures every year. And unless individually voted on they would cease to exist as su... more Unverified source

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  Madhav Godbole

  Former Indian Home Secretary, author

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  In India, there is no 'sunset' clause in any legislation and a law once enacted continues till eternity. No provision is made to lay down a specific time limit when the act would lapse, unless reviewed and re-enacted. And the manner in which most law... more Unverified source (2021)

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  John Berlau

  CEI senior fellow, financial policy

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  Too bad the Durbin Amendment and other provisions of Dodd-Frank also don’t automatically sunset. For that matter, every law should sunset at some point, so a debate can be had about whether it is serving its purposes and the benefits outweigh the cos... more Unverified source (2013)

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  Mark Foley

  Former U.S. Representative, Florida

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  …promulgation of these rules, regulations, amendments, addendums that require every average American citizen to hire expensive accountants in order to just comply with the law. Money Magazine challenged 50 tax preparers to prepare the return for an a... more Unverified source (1998)

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  Alan Greenspan

  Former Federal Reserve Chair

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  If a law is sound, it will be repassable after a period of time. It should not just go on unnoticed. Unverified source (1995)

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  Eugene F. Fama

  Nobel laureate economist

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  My general advice for the next president of the United States is that less government is better than more. Regulation of almost everything, at the federal, state, and local levels, is choking the economy. It’s choking business formation, and it’s cho... more Unverified source (2016)

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  Lysander Spooner

  American individualist anarchist, legal theorist

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  The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most,... more Unverified source (1870)

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  Thomas Paine

  Revolutionary pamphleteer and philosopher

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  Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property i... more Unverified source (1791)

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  European Parliament

  EU legislative body

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  Underlines that the Commission should prioritise the development of certain measures and should focus on the quality of legislation and better enforcement of existing legislation rather than on the number of legislative acts; underlines in this regar... more Unverified source (2016)

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  Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD)

  Democracy-strengthening public foundation

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  They are a vital part of a ‘human-rights compliant’ COVID‑19 response, according to the United Nations. They are not, of course, a silver bullet to protect democracy from authoritarianism. Their effectiveness relies heavily on the quality of the revi... more Unverified source (2020)

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  Larry Downes

  Author and tech policy analyst

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  One of the problems is we don’t set sunset provisions. Some regulations, some laws do have sunset provisions, but they say … it doesn’t mean it necessarily goes away, it just says, “If you don’t renew this in two years or five years, then it will sun... more Unverified source

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  Antonios Kouroutakis

  IE University law professor

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  In practice, the benefits from the sunset clause are twofold. First, such a clause allows the comprehensive evaluation of the transferred authority, minimizing the risk of any abuse. Secondly, such a clause sets the timetable, which promotes legal ce... more Unverified source (2018)

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  George K. Yin

  UVA law professor, tax scholar

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  Temporary-effect legislation could be enacted in a way to achieve considerable stability and predictability if the Congress were to give priority to those attributes. [...] A temporary provision may be as effective or more effective than a permanent ... more Unverified source (2007)

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  Jacob E. Gersen

  Harvard Law School professor

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  This paper provides a descriptive, positive, and normative analysis of temporary legislation, statutes containing a clause terminating legal authority on a specified future date. Notwithstanding the fact that a significant portion of the legislative ... more Unverified source (2007)

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  Elon Musk

  Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

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  Yeah. So, yeah, something needs to happen, or civilization’s arteries just harden over time. And you can just get less and less done because there’s just a rule against everything. So I think, I don’t know, for Mars, or whatever, I’d say, or even for... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Brian Armstrong

  Coinbase cofounder and CEO

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  One interesting idea for democracies is that you put a sunset clause in every law, where after 4 or 8 or 10 years or something, unless people actively go to reinitiate it, it sunsets and goes away. It might be interesting to have other ways to keep t... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Mike Scott

  Former Canadian MP for Skeena

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  The result is that we keep getting more laws. We do not revisit them. Government bills on the whole ought to contain sunset clauses. Every law should have a sunset clause that would require it to cease to exist after five years unless it was specific... more Unverified source (1995)

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  Rick Scott

  U.S. senator from Florida

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  Last night, Joe Biden rambled for a while, but it seems he forgot to share the facts: In my plan, I suggested the following: All federal legislation sunsets in five years. If a law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again. This is clearly and obv... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Jeff Jacoby

  Boston Globe columnist

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  An expiration date should be included in every law and regulation. Unverified source (2021)

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  Jim Cooper

  Former U.S. congressman from Tennessee

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  A "sunset clause is a very appropriate remedy. But it's got to be enforced to mean anything. Unverified source (2012)

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  Andrew Yang

  Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate

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  There should also be a sunset period defined—a time during which, barring Congressional action, the law will be removed from the books. Unverified source

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Third U.S. president; Declaration drafter

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  Every constitution then, & every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. Unverified source (1789)

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  Philip K. Howard

  Lawyer; Common Good founder, author

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  Congress could take on this responsibility if it followed a simple proposal: Every law should automatically expire after 10 or 15 years. Unverified source (2010)

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  Tom Giovanetti

  Institute for Policy Innovation president

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  At both the state and federal level, every new law and regulation should have an expiration date. Unverified source (2015)

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  Russell Newman

  Aerospace Engineer 🚀 Author of Rocket Science for Kids

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  I was also attracted to this idea in the past, but I think it has some fatal flaws. It invites the political brinkmanship negotiation that we see with the U.S. Debt Ceiling: "I won't vote for your great bill that is about to expire unless you agree t... more Verified source (2024)

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  Law Society of England and Wales

  England and Wales solicitors' body

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  On 10 May 2023, the government scrapped the proposed sunset clause, which would have automatically revoked most retained EU law at the end of 2023. […] We’ve welcomed this news. Since 2022, we’ve been advocating for the government to remove the sunse... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Electronic Frontier Foundation

  We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online.

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  Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are supporting a plan to “sunset” Section 230. But without Section 230, Big Tech will shoot first, ask questions later when it comes to taking down controversial online speech. For marginalized users with little s... more Unverified source

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  Paul Rosenzweig

  Former DHS official, legal scholar

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  I would not support sunsetting every provision of every law, for precisely the same reasons that you've just alluded to, that it gives us the opportunity for a big Christmas tree to be grown in the midst of Congress. In the context, however, of this ... more Unverified source (2003)

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  Joe Biden

  U.S. president, former senator

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  Let me read from it: "All Federal legislation sunsets every 5 years. If the law is worth keeping, Congress can pass it again." So every 5 years, you're going to have to vote on whether we're going to have Social Security anymore—you're—or cut it, wha... more Unverified source (2022)

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  Max Boot

  Columnist, historian, foreign-policy analyst

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  Thomas Jefferson rejected the tendency to “look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.” He argued “that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the ... more Unverified source (2022)

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  Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC)

  Australian federal law reform body

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  219. A ‘Sunset Clause’? This general approach does not mean that legislation for the recognition of Aboriginal customary laws should contain an express termination or ‘sunset’ clause. Such a clause might be appropriate with certain special measures o... more Unverified source (2010)

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  Cass R. Sunstein

  Harvard law professor; ex OIRA head

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  It may be too rigid. But I will tell you what I do see a benefit in that is closely analogous, is to take our look-back process not as a one-shot endeavor, but as a location for the creation of teams and institutions that are constantly, and not just... more Unverified source

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  Mitch McConnell

  U.S. Senate Republican leader

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  I mean, it’s just a bad idea. I think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own reelection in Florida, a state with more elderly people than any state in America. It is clearly the Rick Scott plan. It is not the Republican plan. Unverified source (2023)

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  Mike O'Brien

  UK Solicitor General (2005–2007)

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  Sunset clauses have been used on occasion, but they are not the best way of proceeding. Unverified source (2006)

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  David A. Fahrenthold

  Washington Post investigative journalist

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  As Congress spends its time extending sunsets, a tool meant to stop procrastination is now used to make procrastination look like work. Unverified source (2012)

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  UK Government

  United Kingdom central executive authority

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  votes Against and says:

  Whilst on occasion a sunset or renewal clause is deemed necessary, the Government believes this must be approached on a case-by-case basis. Unverified source (2009)

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  James Madison

  Fourth U.S. president; Constitution framer

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  My first thoughts lead me to view the doctrine as not in all respects, compatible with the course of human affairs. Unverified source (1790)

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