In an age when new federal programs and “czars” seem to spring up every day, the Republican Study Committee in the U.S. House is fighting the trend. With support from taxpayer groups, the conservative group of House members announced today formation of a permanent “Sunset Caucus.” whose aim, as RSC Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., put it, is “reining in the overgrowth in Washington that is threatening every American taxpayer.”
Each of the caucus’s 47 members is tasked with adopting one government program and championing its abolition by proposing legislation and discussing it as much as possible in public appearances. Among their top targets are the remaining unspent portion of the economic stimulus package, public funding for presidential elections, Americorps, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Amtrak.