I agree with the Senator. One of the important recommendations of the Commission was a proposal for a statute establishing a general classification regime and creating a national declassification center. The four Congressional members of the Commission, Representatives Combest and Hamilton, Senator Helms, and I, proposed just such a statute last May, the Government Secrecy Act, S.712.
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