THE LEDGER-STAR
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, February 2, 1995 TAG: 9502020541
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A1 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: Short : 28 lines
Starting in March, the House will devote Tuesdays to passing ``correction bills,'' undoing the ``dumb'' or ``destructive'' or ``aberrant'' things that government does, says House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Three times this week Gingrich, R-Ga., has spoken publicly of his idea - to pass bills to stop actions that even bureaucrats know are unnecessary but say they are compelled to do by the inflexibility of the law.
He says he expects the House to pass ``20 or 30 correction acts a month'' - narrowly drawn bills that would address only actions affecting a single situation.
And he says President Clinton endorses the idea, in principle.
As an example of a situation that would be corrected, he cited a water treatment facility that the Environmental Protection Agency may require San Diego to build to stop raw sewage from being dumped in the Pacific Ocean. by CNB