Bills Would Help Restore Faith in Government

Progress - Index, The; Petersburg, Va. › June 08, 2010

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Summary

Open government is a non-partisan issue because it is good government. Yet efforts to re-invigorate the Freedom of Information Act, first passed in 1966, have fallen to partisan wrangling in Congress disguised as a national security debate.

Following a brief period in the late 1990s when most government agencies were current in their processing of information requests, every federal agency now has a substantial backlog. That serves secrecy rather than openness and breeds suspicion of the government.

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Bills Would Help Restore Faith in Government

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