Sen. John Cornyn on FOIA Reform

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It has been almost 25 years since the Senate Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing on the Freedom of Information Act, half that since the committee examined FOIA compliance, Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX, writes in the LBJ Journal of Public Affairs. Sen. Cornyn, a committee member, changed that by chairing a hearing on his own bill to repair FOIA in March. The goal, he writes, is approval of legislation to “close loopholes in the law, help requestors obtain timely responses to their requests, ensure that agencies have strong incentives to act on requests in a timely fashion, and provide FOIA officials with the tools they need to ensure that our government remains open and accessible.”