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On the recordSeptember 20, 2022
Will you agree to, in the future, making records available at the National Archives to be able to show what the process was and the decisionmaking was, to be able to reach the point to have greater transparency for the American people?
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford asks for future transparency in record-keeping at the National Archives.

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