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11 News: Gov. Polis ‘cuts away’ more than 200 Colorado Executive Orders in government efficiency effort

Governor Jared Polis signed an Executive Order Thursday rescinding more than 200 outdated Executive Orders in what he said is an effort to make Colorado’s government more efficient.

To symbolically accompany the action, he also cut away physical copies of those orders.

With a table saw.

“As governor, I can do this with Executive Orders, but for the legislature to get rid of old laws, it takes them passing it through both chambers,” Polis explained. “So, we are looking to forward to working with the Colorado Chamber of Commerce and others to find old and obsolete regulations and laws, so hopefully we can do a similar thing with laws in addition to with Executive Orders.”

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