Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. {time} 2045 Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bill and I want to thank Representative Mark Meadows for his hard work on this bill. This bill would make the Federal Government's records more transparent. This bill includes the language of a bill I introduced, the Electronic Message Preservation Act. That portion of the legislation would require the Archivist of the United States to issue regulations mandating that within 2 years of enactment all Federal agencies manage and preserve their email records electronically. The bill would also direct the Archivist to establish standards for the preservation and management of electronic Presidential records and to annually certify that the White House has records management controls in place that meet those standards. Under this bill, the Archivist must report 1 year after the President leaves office on whether the controls used by the President met the required standards. This amendment would move agencies out of the arcane print-and-file recordkeeping systems that many of them still use, a system which can lead to records getting lost or not being turned over in response to requests. This bill also includes an amendment offered by my colleague Representative Jackie Speier during the committee markup. The Speier amendment would provide a clearer standard for agencies to follow with regard to which records had to be kept and for how long.…”