Senators Urge Passage Of Revised FOIA Bill

SENATORS URGE PASSAGE OF REVISED FOIA BILL
[SOURCE: Associated Press]
Lawmakers are scrambling to align House and Senate versions of a bill to strengthen freedom-of-information laws in time to pass it this year. After talks to reconcile the bills went nowhere, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) presented a new version of their bill, S.849, yesterday that would bring its financial issues in line with the House version, HR 1309. But with less than three weeks left before Congress recesses for the holidays, it was not clear that the measure would pass muster with the House's pay-as-you-go rules or that President Bush would sign such a bill into law.
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