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KEY REPORT FINDINGS: The Executive Branch culture encourages an unlawful presumption in favor of secrecy when responding to FOIA requests. The administration is unaware that FOIA is systemically broken.  Agencies create and follow FOIA policies that appear to be designed to deter requesters from ...

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE REPORT WASHINGTON – Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a staff report on its investigation into the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), concluding that the FOIA process is broken and in need of serious reforms. The report illustrates the complexity of the FOIA process that members of the media and ...

WASHINGTON—Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1777, the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act. This bipartisan legislation limits the pensions of former presidents, increases the pensions of surviving spouses, and limits the allowances provided for post-presidential expenditures. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who cosponsored the legislation, released the following ...

WASHINGTON— The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Oversight and Implementation Act of 2015 or FOIA Act, (H.R. 653), introduced by Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD), was approved today under suspension of the rules in the U.S. House of Representatives. This legislation makes needed reforms to the FOIA process to provide ...

PURPOSE: • To examine how and why certain agencies withhold, or otherwise fail to produce, documents and information that will assist the Committee’s oversight and investigative initiatives. BACKGROUND: • Congress’ right of access to executive branch information is constitutionally based and is critical to the concept of co-equal branches of government. • Since the first congressional request for information ...

PURPOSE: ·To examine the status of remediation efforts to reduce program backlog in the Army Fee Assistance (AFA) program. ·To examine Army’s plan to transition the program back to its ...

Legislation heads to president's desk WASHINGTON—Today, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood. Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after voting in support of the legislation: “Today the House did its job. Obamacare has been a disaster since it was forced on the American people over five years ago. People are paying more and getting less. ...