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094539 1 (1973-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxni0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, April 11, 1973 STATEMENT OF ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEES ON SEPARATION OF POWERS and ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY AND THE SUBCOM!MITTEE ON INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittees: At your request I appear today in connection with hearings on S. 1142, S. 858, and S.J.Res 72 relating to congressional and public access to execu- tive branch information. S. 1142 proposes a number of procedural and substantive amendments to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552, designed primarily to enhance public access to Government information. S.J. Res. 72 and S. 858 would prohibit refusals on the part of any Federal officer or employee to appear, testify and produce documents before either House or any Committee of the Congress except where the President formally and in writing invokes executive privilege. Whether the invocation of executive privilege before a congressional committee or subcommittee is well taken would be for determination by the full committee and ultimately by the appropriate House (or both Houses in the case of a joint committee). S. 858, in section 307, also deals with access on the part of con- gressional committees and by the General Accounting Office to information

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