House Set to Pass FOIA Reforms

Press Release

On Monday, January 11, the House of Representatives is set to pass H.R. 653, the FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act, which was introduced by Representatives Darrell Issa and Elijah Cummings. The bill bolsters and modernizes how Americans get information from the federal government through Freedom of Information Act requests.

Statement from Congressman Issa on the pending House vote on FOIA reform:

"I'm optimistic that this bill passes the House with bipartisan support and will be signed into law in the near future. The bill represents major common sense reforms that give citizen watchdogs and journalists easier access to information to hold the government accountable. Chiefly, it changes the assumption that government information is secret to a presumption of openness and modernizes the system for processing requests so that agency responses are more efficient."

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