Setting and Enforcing Regulations

Feb 8, 2016

Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story

As Americans were gathering party supplies to greet the New Year, the Internal Revenue Service released their annual report of cumulative tax data reported on the 400 tax r...

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Feb 4, 2016

Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans

Chlorine bleach plants across the U.S. put millions of Americans in danger of a chlorine gas release, a substance so toxic it has been used as a chemical weapon. Greenpeace’s new repo...

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Jan 25, 2016

U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2014 is now available. The good news: total toxic releases by reporting facilities decreased by nearly six percent from 2013 levels. Howe...

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Jan 22, 2016

Methane Causes Climate Change. Here's How the President Plans to Cut Emissions by 40-45 Percent.

UPDATE (Jan. 22, 2016): Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its proposed rule to reduce methane emissions...

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Sunset Legislation Faces Vote on the Floor, Advocates Speak Out

The House will vote this week on two "sunset commission" bills, under which unelected commissions would be given the authority to recommend sweeping changes in the federal government and force those changes through Congress.

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Opposition Statements on H.R. 5766

Jul 25, 2006 by Guest Blogger

The House Government Reform Committee's Democratic members have a strong opposition statement in the committee report to H.R. 5766 (H. Rep. 109-594 pt.I).

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Sunset Commissions: Press Packet

Speakers on July 25 Briefing Call

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Opposition to Sunsets: Who's Who

Jul 24, 2006 by Guest Blogger

Who opposes sunset commission legislation? Everybody who's anybody. Check out the latest batch of opposition letters:

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MEDIA ADVISORY: Telephone Briefing on Sunset Commission Bills

WASHINGTON — Former Texas Sunset Commissioner O.H. "Ike" Harris, Barbara Coufal of AFSME, and Gabriela Lemus of LULAC and Robert Shull of OMB Watch will brief journalists on a dangerous proposal to create an unelected, unaccountable commission empowered to target programs for elimination. More than 300 organizations are opposing the creation of a sunset commission. Speakers tomorrow will discuss the legislation, the Texas experience, and the threat that such commissions pose to the most vulnerable members of our society.

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Ask Your Representative to Vote "No" on Sunsets! Call Today!

Call your representative, and tell him or her to vote ‘No’ on sunset legislation!

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Two Sunset Bills Racing to Floor Vote in House

Negotiations among proponents of sunset commission legislation have reportedly broken down, and now two separate bills are racing to the House floor for a vote as early as next week. Both bills share the basic sunset concept: creating unelected, unaccountable commissions to recommend which programs or agencies live, die, or get changed, and then to force the issue with Congress.

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Issue Brief: Sunset Commission Proposals

This issue brief discusses the leading sunset commission proposals in the last months of the 109th Congress and identifies whether they live up to their promise of cutting waste and improving management of federal programs, or whether they present new problems.

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Programs on the Chopping Block

Congress will soon consider the creation of a “sunset commission.” If approved, this unelected and unaccountable commission would have the power to recommend programs for elimination or realignment. Below are some of the programs continually under threat of elimination by the Bush administration and the Republican Study Committee. If the sunset commission proposal is passed, Congress may have little opportunity to save these valuable programs. Download a fact sheet on some of the programs at risk of being cut.

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