Bunker Busting Bush Admin. Secrecy: Waxman/Oversight Introduce Open Gov and FOIA Enhancement Acts

[CorpGovActivist]

Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Open Government
Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007

On March 5, 2007, Reps. Wm. Lacy Clay, Todd Russell Platts, and Henry A. Waxman introduced H.R. 1309, the Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007. This legislation contains a dozen substantive provisions that will increase public access to government information by strengthening the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). On March 6, the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives reported this bill favorably to the full committee.

http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1201

Also...

Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives business meeting on House Report ---, A Citizen’s Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to Request Government Records, H.R. ---, Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National (OPEN) Government Act of 2007 and H.R.---, Presidential Records Act Amendment of 2007
Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 2:00 p.m., in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building

FYI...

Best to all,

- Dave

[peacetheonlyway]

1. about damn time

tell them while they are at it, to allow CD's that hold
ballot data to be provided via FOIA or state's Open Records act
to be provided to citizens.

till now software has been excluded from full FOIA disclosure and that needs to change.

I like to see more things like this happen. good to see Dems are finally moving their
snail train in the right direction.