Sylvester Turner: “This amendment, creating a sunset process, has been successful in many of our States. The gentleman from Texas (Mr.…”

“This amendment, creating a sunset process, has been successful in many of our States. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Brady) and I have had personal experience with it in our State, where we have been able to eliminate unnecessary agencies. We have been able to streamline the activities of agencies. I know that at the Federal level we all understand that it is very difficult job within our existing committee structures to really take a good, hard and complete look at the management and the functioning of our Federal agencies in the course of the appropriations process and the oversight responsibilities of our authorizing committees. So by creating a bipartisan commission of six Democrats and six Republicans, we do this with a long-term view to accomplish some goals that perhaps we are not as good at accomplishing in our usual process.”