I make no claim to be a particularly avid Parliamentary historian, however, I did stumble across this at the weekend. It was a speech made to the House of Commons by a Mr Bacon on this very day in 1601:

Bacons Speech for Repealing superfluous Laws.
Mr. Bacon said, ‘May it please you Mr. Speaker, not out of ‘Ostentation to this House, but in Reverence I do speak it: That I do much wonder to see the House so continually divided, and to agree upon nothing; to see many Laws here, so well framed, and Offences provided against, and yet to have no better Success and Entertainment. I do think every man in his particular, bound to help the Common-wealth the best he may; and better it is, to venture a mans Credit by Speaking, than to stretch a mans Conscience by Silence, and to endeavor to make that good in Nature, which is possible in Effect.
‘Laws be like Pills all gilt over, which if they be easily and well swallowed down, are neither bitter in digestion, nor hurtful in the body; every man knows that Time is the true Controuler of Laws, and therefore there having been a great alteration of Time, since the Repeal of a number of Laws; I know, and do assure my self, there are many, more than I know, Laws both needless, and dangerous.
‘I could therefore wish, that as usually every Parliament, there is a Committee selected for the Continuance of divers Statutes, so the House would be pleased also, that there might be a Committee for the Repeal of divers Statutes, and of diverse superfluous Branches of Statutes. And that every particular Member of the House, would give Information to the Committees, what Statutes, he thinketh fitting to be Repealed, or what Branch to be Superfluous, left, as he said, pluat super nos laqueas: The more Laws we make, the more Snares we lay to entrap our selves.
Upon which Motion, a Committee was granted to meet on Friday.

(From: ‘Proceedings in the Commons, 1601: November 6th – 10th’, Historical Collections:: or, An exact Account of the Proceedings of the Four last Parliaments of Q. Elizabeth (1680), pp. 193-207.)

“The more Laws we make, the more Snares we lay to entrap our selves.”

Very applicable to then and now…