"Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007" Passes House

HR 1255 passed in the House of Representatives on March 14, on a vote of 333 in favor and 93 opposed. Among other things, the bill would rescind President Bush’s Executive Order 13233. Should similar legislation be passed in the Senate, the White House has threatened to veto.

Read Past President Steve Hensen’s March 1 testimony to the House Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Archives.

Read recent press clips:

• SMU pressed to fight Bush's secrecy
  Dallas Morning News (Feb. 5, 2007)
• Broadening the Bush Library Debate
  Inside Higher Ed (Feb. 6, 2007)

SAA first protested the EO in 2001. [Read more]