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The lame duck section of this 113th Congress could be very good for open government in the United States: openthegovernment.org/Lame_Duck_Open_Gov_Bills Theres genuine movement on Freedom of Information Act reform, per Senator Patrick Leahy: “I have worked with Senator Cornyn for months on the FOIA Improvement Act. It has broad bipartisan support, including the support of Ranking Member Grassley. Because of scheduling challenges in the Senate this Thursday, we are likely to hold the Committee markup off the floor this week. This FOIA bill should be debated in full public view, and so we will hold over our legislation this week so all members and the public can participate in this important debate. I expect the Judiciary Committee will approve our bipartisan legislation next week when the Committee meets at its regularly-scheduled time.” nsarchive.wordpress/2014/11/13/movement-on-foia-improvement-act-us-ramping-up-national-security-reviews-of-chinese-investments-us-ratification-of-treaty-banning-torture-leaves-open-possible-loopholes-and-much-more-frinformsum-1/ …and Congress has already sent a bill on presidential records to the presidents desk.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:12:52 +0000

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