Jon Fox said "one of the related bills that I have, and I hope that would also see legislative action, and that would be what I call the sunset review of Federal agencies. It is something we did in Pennsylvania where we evaluated all of the State agencies and said, over a 7-year period or 5 years or whatever we want to pick, each agency had to justify its own existence. To the extent it could, it would remain. To the extent it did not, it would be consolidated, privatized, downsized, or eliminated. This is a process that seems so logical it should have been adopted previously, but it is something that I believe is related to the gentleman's legislation when it comes to debt repayment and balanced budgets." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 29, 1997

one of the related bills that I have, and I hope that would also see legislative action, and that would be what I call the sunset review of Federal agencies. It is something we did in Pennsylvania where we evaluated all of the State agencies and said, over a 7-year period or 5 years or whatever we want to pick, each agency had to justify its own existence. To the extent it could, it would remain. To the extent it did not, it would be consolidated, privatized, downsized, or eliminated. This is a process that seems so logical it should have been adopted previously, but it is something that I believe is related to the gentleman's legislation when it comes to debt repayment and balanced budgets.

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Jon Fox

Republican · Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need for sunset reviews of Federal agencies to justify their existence.

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