Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 08:44:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Competitive Enterprise Institute To: Recipients of the CEI List Subject: CEI List: Letter to Sen. Dole For Release: October 10, 1995 Contact: Greg Smith or Wayne Crews at (202) 331-1010 POLICY EXPERTS URGE SENATOR DOLE TO MATCH HOUSE ON SUNSETTING FEDERAL REGULATIONS In a letter to Majority Leader Robert Dole today, several public policy group leaders urged the Senator to schedule Senate action on a regulatory sunsetting bill that will soon be considered by the House of Representatives. The signatories, which included Fred Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and former U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop of Frontiers of Freedom, noted that "key opportunities remain on the regulatory reform front." In order to "keep the regulatory reform debate moving forward, we encourage the Senate to schedule floor action on sunsetting," noting that the "House is expected to pass the Regulatory Sunset and Review Act (H.R. 994)" in the coming weeks. The letter was sponsored by the Regulatory Action Group. The writers urged, however, that "When major agency regulations are sunsetted, Congress itself--not the agencies--should have to approve their continuation, at least by voice vote," advising that "A principled, courageous debate over the very legitimacy of the bureaucratic state should bypass the current stalemate over cost-benefit analysis and judicial review." The letter closed, "Let's regain momentum and restore the focus on fundamental reform. Again, we urge the Senate to consider a sunsetting bill, but we also invite the Senate to be even bolder in this and in future regulatory reform initiatives." Signatories of the letter were Fred L. Smith (Competitive Enterprise Institute), Karen Kerrigan (Small Business Survival Committee), Sen. Malcolm Wallop (Frontiers of Freedom), Robert Crandall (Brookings Institution), Paul Weyrich (Coalitions for America), William Niskanen (Cato Institute), Christopher DeMuth (American Enterprise Institute), Paul Beckner (Citizens for a Sound Economy), Sen. Ray Powers (American Legislative Exchange Council), Robert D. Tollison (Center for the Study of Public Choice), Amy Moritz (National Center for Public Policy Research), John Goodman (National Center for Policy Analysis), Gordon Jones (Association of Concerned Taxpayers), Richard L. Stroup (Political Economy Research Center), Edmund Peterson (Project 21), Tom Schatz (Citizens Against Government Waste), and Nancie G. Marzulla (Defenders of Property Rights). Affiliations are for identification purposes only. The Regulatory Action Group is an ad-hoc working group sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and the Small Business Survival Committee. CEI is a Washington-based public interest group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. _______ ________ __________ / | | | |_______ | | | | \ _______ |_______ __________ COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE 1001 Connecticut Ave. NW #1250 Washington, DC 20036 202-331-1010, fax 202-331-0640 Permission to reprint must be obtained from the publishing journal listed above. Permission to copy granted as long as these lines are left intact. To subscribe to the cei list, send a message to CEI@digex.com. "The Virtual Hand: CEI's free-market guide to the information superhighway" is available for $5. CEI's monthly newsletter, "CEI UpDate," is free to contributors of $25.