It is a Rubik's Cube, as Senator Leahy said this morning.
I thank you for your cooperation through all the weeks of negotiation on this bill.
Thank you once again, Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Leahy, and members of the Committee, for holding this critical hearing.
It is not resources. It is will. It is leadership.
It will codify what President Obama laid out in his historic 2009 memorandum requiring Federal agencies to adopt a presumption of openness.
They need to create a SWAT team that goes in, reviews all of the Secretary's calendars, reviews her memcons and telcons, and gets those e-ma...
More time is not going to do it. What the State Department has got to do, they have got increasing requests because they have got a former S...
I am hopeful--hopeful that will not be the case this year and that the Senate will soon pass meaningful and much needed reforms.
Both Senator Cornyn and I said at the time we want this--the strongest act possible, whether it is a Democratic or Republican Administration...
The bill codifies the, quote-unquote, 'presumption of openness' standard so that agencies proactively disclose more information.
Our very democracy is based on the idea that our government should not operate in secret and we should embrace that.
I place my money on the Associated Press because you get behind those numbers and you see what the Department of Justice is talking about.
I would point out that I have in my hand an article from Investor Business Daily, and it is dated, by the way, the 6th of May, but is titled...
There is perhaps no better tool that Americans have to help ensure open government than FOIA.
We are going to examine what this Administration has done to fulfill its promise of open government.
I will vote for more resources for answering FOIA requests.
I think it's maybe not unique, but it might be unique in this Congress.
the price for crime is paid not by the taxpayers across the board, on average, so that we all share in that, but it's paid in great, huge, w...
