DownsizeDC.org, along with thirty-three other public interest groups, signed a letter to the House Appropriations Act to preserve the Open the Government Act. That Act created a new Office of Government Information Services at the National Archives and Records Administration, to improve the way the government processes Freedom of Information Act requests. But Section 519 of President Bush’s new budget would move the office to the Dept. of Justice, which would undermine the new Office’s independence and create conflicts-of-interest within Justice. We request that Section 519 be rejected, and that the new Office of Government Information Services stays at the National Archives, as Congress intended. The letter is attached.
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