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October 2, 2007

Any Kentucky Readers Out There?

ALA brings this one to our attention:

The Presidential Records Act Amendments bill (H.R.1255) is currently being prevented from a vote in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY). He has not stated his reasons for doing so. H.R.1255 removes restrictions placed by President Bush’s 2001 Executive Order 13233 and enhances the Presidential Records Act, one of the nation’s most important open-government laws.
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We are asking for your help,

1) Contact Sen. Bunning’s office by phone and ask that he release the hold on the bill so it can be scheduled for a vote. His direct office number is 202-224-4343.

2) Contact your Senator, tell them of your support for H.R.1255 and ask them to urge Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to have Sen. Bunning release the hold on the bill. You may do this via email, phone or letter. [emphasis in original]

(Unsurprisingly, our own Senator Obama—given his passion about open government—has already signed on as a co-sponsor of this bill in the Senate, but Sen. Durbin has not.)

The impact on libraries should be obvious: open information and record access is our lifeblood. So even though this doesn’t directly affect the library world (except for the Presidential Library world), it’s still important to the community as a whole.

posted by Alan at 8:15 am | Comments (0)

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