Home > Congressional Record > June 27, 2019 > Senate Section > Page S4587

June 27, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 109 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

Entire Issue (PDF)Browse By Date

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT; Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 109
(Senate - June 27, 2019)

Text available as:

Formatting necessary for an accurate reading of this text may be shown by tags (e.g., <DELETED> or <BOLD>) or may be missing from this TXT display. For complete and accurate display of this text, see the PDF.


[Page S4587]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, on another point, the Supreme Court made 
a decision this week that I very much disagree with. I am an advocate 
for the Freedom of Information Act and for the public's business being 
public, and this Supreme Court decision inhibited that.
  In a self-governed society, the people ought to know what their 
government is up to. Transparency laws, like the Freedom of Information 
Act, help to provide access to information in the face of an opaque and 
obstinate government. Unfortunately, a recent Supreme Court ruling and 
new regulations at the EPA and the Department of the Interior are 
undermining access to there being public information.
  In other words, the public's business ought to be public. So I am 
working on legislation to address these developments and to promote 
access to government records. Americans deserve an accountable 
government, and transparency leads to accountability.

                          ____________________