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Presidential Records Act
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As a Presidential library administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, this library, under the authority of the Presidential Records Act, is the repository of presidential records for President Reagan’s administration. The holdings include 50 million pages of presidential documents, over 1.6 million photographs, a half million feet of motion picture film, and tens of thousands of audio and video tapes. Additionally, the library houses personal papers collections, including documents from Reagan’s eight years as Governor of California.
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The bill would nullify the Bush executive order and re-establish procedures to ensure the timely release of presidential records that the Presidential Records Act was designed to ensure. The bill ... has broad bipartisan support in the Senate, and cleared the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee by voice vote earlier this year.
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E-Mail -Computer -Tech -Company -Government -Communications -Archive -Presidential Records Act -Law -Politics -California - "Bush E-Mail Mystery Deepens: White House Won't Name Tech Contractor." "The [Republican President Bush] White House will not identify a private company which appears to be involved in the disappearance of millions of White House e-mails." "According to the White House, at least five million e-mails were not properly archived and may be lost forever, in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act. The post-Watergate law states that communications relating to official activity in the offices of the president and vice president are owned by the American public and cannot be destroyed." "The firm worked for the Information Assurance Directorate, under the White House chief information officer, [California Democratic Representative Henry] Waxman said he was told." -By Justin Rood -ABCNEWS.com
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Four years later, the Presidential Records Act, which defied Richard Nixon's last attempt to conceal his papers and tape recordings, stated that presidential records are the property of the government and do not belong to former presidents. In a spirit of compromise, the act guaranteed public access to papers 12 years after a president has left office.
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Under the Presidential Records Act, Presidential records are supposed to be released to historians and the public 12 years after the end of a Presidential administration. Shortly after taking office in 2001, President Bush issued Executive Order 13233, which overturned President Reagan's Executive order and gave current and former Presidents and Vice Presidents broad authority to withhold Presidential records or delay their release indefinitely. H.R. 1255 will nullify the Bush Executive order and establish procedures to ensure the timely release of Presidential records.
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Official: To amend chapter 22 of title 44, United States Code, popularly known as the Presidential Records Act, to establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of Presidential records. as introduced.
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