Home » post » Congressional Transparency, Past and Present

Our mission

Free Government Information (FGI) is a place for initiating dialogue and building consensus among the various players (libraries, government agencies, non-profit organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.) who have a stake in the preservation of and perpetual free access to government information. FGI promotes free government information through collaboration, education, advocacy and research.

Congressional Transparency, Past and Present

There are a few transparency bills that are up for debate in Congress today: The Presidential Records Act and The Presidential Library Donation Reform Act. The Sunlight Blog has a good write-up summarizing the importance of these two bills, as well as a post by Ellen Miller.

I just checked GovTrack.org and here are the House votes results:

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: H R 35 Presidential Records Act Amendments

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass: H R 36 Presidential Library Donation Reform Act

If you are interested in learning more about the history of Congressional transparency reform, checkout Sunlight.org’s project, The Transparency Timeline.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Archives