Patrick Leahy actually said...

Also, back in 2007, Senator Cornyn and I authored the Open Government Act to strengthen FOIA.

the transparency that we are supposed to have in FOIA is a promise to everybody in this country because it impacts the lives of Americans al...

[a] popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both...

Of course, in the National Defense Act, we tried to put in a very, very narrow exemption.