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BUSH ORDER ON PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS CHALLENGED
In a frontal challenge to one of the Bush Administration's more
controversial information policies, legislation was introduced in
Congress last week that would nullify President Bush's executive order
13233, which imposed new restrictions on public access to presidential
records from past administrations.
The November 1 Bush executive order represented "an extremely expansive
view of the scope of executive privilege," said Rep. Stephen Horn
(R-CA), who introduced the new bill along with 22 cosponsors. Among
other novel claims, the order asserted that executive privilege could be
inherited by the estate of a deceased president.
For this and other reasons, Rep. Horn said, the Bush order "violates the
letter and spirit of the Presidential Records Act," the 1978 law that
governs the disposition of presidential records.
The new bill, dubbed "The Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2002"
(HR 4187), is posted here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2002/hr4187.html
Rep. Horn's introductory statement is posted here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2002/041102horn.html
Testimony from a hearing entitled "The Importance of Access to
Presidential Records: The Views of Historians," held before the House
Government Reform Committee on April 11, is posted here:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/congress/2002/index.html#pra
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