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On the recordMay 25, 2010
It strikes me that the sunset provision accomplishes two things: one, it enables us to have a trial period...
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse emphasizes the importance of a sunset provision for evaluating executive power.

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