{"id":2096,"date":"2007-03-19T20:01:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T02:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/sunshine-in-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T02:01:09","slug":"sunshine-in-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/sunshine-in-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine in Washington, DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>The first executive order Duhbya signed in 2001 was to lock up presidential records in perpetuity. Six years later, the House has some spine again. TRY to remember next election that Heather Wilson voted in support of Duhbya&#8217;s absolute power. (Even Steve Pearce voted for the public.)<span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACCESS: Voting 333 for and 93 against, the House<br \/>\non March 14 passed a bill (HR 1255) nullifying a 2001 executive order<br \/>\nby President Bush impeding public and historians&#8217; access to presidential<br \/>\nrecords. Bush&#8217;s order empowers future and past presidents and vice<br \/>\npresidents to deny or strictly limit access to their papers. This bill<br \/>\nwould reinvigorate a post-Watergate law [1978] making most White House<br \/>\ndocuments publicly accessible without undue delay. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No member spoke against the bill.<\/p>\n<p>A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate. &#8221;<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.rollcallvotes.com\/cgi-bin\/house_newest.pl?+5+NM+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first executive order Duhbya signed in 2001 was to lock up presidential records in perpetuity. Six years later, the House has some spine again. TRY to remember next election that Heather Wilson voted in support of Duhbya&#8217;s absolute power. (Even Steve Pearce voted for the public.)mjh PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACCESS: Voting 333 for and 93 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/sunshine-in-washington-dc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunshine in Washington, DC<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}