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On the recordJanuary 17, 2017
What was troubling to many of us in the previous Administration was when officials within the Obama administration went to extraordinary lengths to avoid disclosing their official written communications under the Freedom of Information Act.
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming

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Barrasso criticized the Obama administration's lack of transparency regarding communications.

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