How does one stop legislative ratcheting? So many overreaching measures are now simply reintroduced to the floor as many times as necessary to pass, or get backdoored in by being packaged with other p...
Sunset clauses are one lever with a real track record. Build expiry into the law so it dies on its own unless Congress acts to keep it. That is exactly what happened to the 1994 assault weapons ban: it carried a ten year sunset, lapsed in 2004, and Congress has not managed to renew it since.