Twenty years ago, I testified in Congress on the Presidential Records Act and the need for reforms to preserve these records for history. This morning I will testify again on this subject before the Senate Committee on Homeland and Governmental Affairs in a hearing entitled “Correcting the Public Record: Reforming Federal and Presidential Records Management.”  

The hearing will begin at 10:00 am in SD-342 Senate Dirksen Building & via videoconference. It will also be shown at 8pm on C-Span2.

The witness list and my written testimony are below.

Witnesses

• Jason R. Baron

  Professor of the Practice, College of Information Studies

  University of Maryland

• Anne Weismann

  Outside Counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

  and the Project on Government Oversight

• Jonathan Turley

  J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law

  The George Washington University Law School

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