Bill Would Require Publishing Congressionally Mandated Reports
Senate legislation introduced Thursday would require agencies to publish congressionally mandated reports. Introduced by Senate Homeland Security Committee ranking member Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Senate Rules Committee Chair Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act would require…
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agencies to submit the reports to the Government Publishing Office “after each agency redacts information that would not be publicly disclosable under the Freedom of Information Act.” The GPO would publish the documents. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., co-sponsored the legislation. A similar bill (HR-2485) passed the House on July 26.