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The record on this is very clear.
Bush wants total secrecy.
Join Historians & Humanists to Support the Presidential Records Act of 2007. No. 3.12.2007. 50.
“History is not partisan,”
said Waxman, a sponsor of the bill and chair of the House’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, a subcommittee of which held the hearing on presidential records Thursday.
“Historians and scholars need access to our nation’s history as it happened, not as a former president wished that it happened.”
The House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform last week approved a bill — the Presidential Records Act of 2007 — that would essentially overturn Bush’s executive order. The full House could vote on the measure as early as this week.While anger over the issue has been widespread among scholars of the presidency since it was issued, the debate over the proposed Bush presidential library at Southern Methodist University has focused more public attention on presidential libraries and access to them.
Groups of humanities advocates and historians are encouraging members to contact lawmakers about backing the legislation going to the House.