It is not resources. It is will. It is leadership.

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-mails out the door.

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.

There is perhaps no better tool that Americans have to help ensure open government than FOIA.

I will vote for more resources for answering FOIA requests.

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 Secretary running for President.

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, 'Obama praised Baltimore police he is now investigating.'

The crime victims really don't have rights under the origin of the Old English common law.

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I would like us to take a good look at that token and find a better way to respect and honor the rights of the crime victims in a more objective approach.

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, whopping chunks from the victims of crimes themselves.

I think it's maybe not unique, but it might be unique in this Congress.

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