This is unacceptable. If America is about anything, it is about a value system.
This is a bipartisan effort. This is not going to be an issue that is going to divide us along party lines at all.
We must show utter and complete passion for this subject. We must stamp it out.
Mr. Connolly. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you all for being here.
I wish I could say everybody remembers that, but we are not cattle, and we are citizens.
In a democracy, frankly, it seems to me we ought to be arguing about this all the time.
That takes a little time which could add to the backlog not because anyone is trying to prevent information from getting...
A lot of our economic competitors in the world don't have FOIA.
First of all, Congress provided for that?
Do you believe that there is some lesson in that?
I personally find the comparison invidious, and upon any examination lacking in any serious comparison.