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→Sunset clauses: don't confuse me with the facts
*Seemingly so, however the "sunset clauses" fell out of use mainly, for several decades. Ronald Reagan brought them back into favor, along with Gingrich, and it became a hallmark of the times, as Rob said, for Speaker Gingrich to insist all enabling legislation for new programs, agencies, include such provisions. Imagine if Social Security had it....they would have actually had to do something to fix it! --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|şŷŝôρ-₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|Ṣρёаќǃ]]</font></sup> 15:30, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
*Seemingly so, however the "sunset clauses" fell out of use mainly, for several decades. Ronald Reagan brought them back into favor, along with Gingrich, and it became a hallmark of the times, as Rob said, for Speaker Gingrich to insist all enabling legislation for new programs, agencies, include such provisions. Imagine if Social Security had it....they would have actually had to do something to fix it! --<font color="#1E90FF" face="Comic Sans MS">[[User:TK|şŷŝôρ-₮K]]</font><sup><font color="DC143C">[[User_Talk:TK|Ṣρёаќǃ]]</font></sup> 15:30, 4 September 2007 (EDT)
:*After the Contract With America, and internal House Reforms that allowed the FBI to investigate matters like William Jefferson, Gingrich popularized sunset clauses, which are now routine in matters such as the Bush Tax Cut of 2001. There was much demogoguery in recent elections, with an effort to create the impression based upon the six decade domination of the Congress by the Democratic party, that the Patriot Act was a permanent loss of freedoms, whereas it in fact it was slated to expire.
::And if you'll do a Google search, I think you'd be surprised at some of the comments Gingrich himself made of the Patriot Act ''including'' its sunset clauses. Here again, don't confuse me with the facts. [[User:RobS|Rob Smith]] 21:19, 4 September 2007 (EDT)