A bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act to require the disclosure of information, upon request, to Congress by the executive branch.

Summary

Provides that upon written request of either House of Congress or any committee of Congress for information relating to programs or activities administered or funded by an agency of the United States, the head of such agency shall immediately make the requested information available to such requesting body and its duly authorized staff. Declares that within thirty-five days of receiving from such requesting body a written request for information, or within such later time as the requesting body may specify, an agency head shall, if so requested by the requesting body, certify whether or not full and complete disclsoure has been made of the information requested insofar as that information is known to his agency. Provides that upon (A) failure of an agency head to make a requested certification; (B) receipt by the requesting body of certification by an agency head that full and complete disclosure of the information has not been made; or (C) formal determination by the Comptroller General of the United States that a certification of full and complete disclosure by an agency head was false; and upon resolution of the requesting body, no funds appropriated after the effective date of this Act shall be obligated or expended directly or indirectly by such agency for the programs or activities in question (as defined by the requesting body) until such time as, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, full and complete disclosure has been made to the requesting body of all information specified in the request and known to the agency. Directs the General Accounting Office to take all steps available to it under law, including, but not limited to, refusal to countersign relevant warrants drawn upon the United States Treasury, to effect the purposes of this Act.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 21 March 1973

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