Elijah Cummings actually said...

On his first day in office, President Obama made clear that open government would be a priority in his administration.

I think it is fair to say that the President jump-started transparency efforts in the executive branch.

I appreciate the chairman's bipartisan work on this bill and I hope we will take swift action to get it on its way to becoming law.

This bill would codify in law what the President has done administratively: it would establish a legal presumption under FOIA in favor of di...