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094537 1 (1973-04-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxng0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cY 15o 7 i UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 3, 1973 STATEMENT OF PAUL G. DEMBLING, GENERAL COUNSEL UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE BEFORE THE FOREIGN OPERATIONS AND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: We are pleased to appear before you today to testify on H.R. 4938, 93d Congress, a bill * * * to require that information be made available to Congress except where Executive privilege is invoked. H. R. 4938 would add three substantive provisions to section 552 of title 5, United States Code (the Freedom of Information Act). First, it would require that any information within the possession or control of any agency be made available to either House or any cognizant committee of the Congress,or to the Comptroller General, within thirty days of a request therefor unless the President submits or signs a statement invoking executive privilege as the basis upon which the information is being refused. Secondly, the bill would require all agency officers and employees to appear upon request before either House or any cognizant committee of the Congress, and to testify and supply information regarding matters within the agency's possession or control, except that the officer or employee could refuse to supply items of information specifically

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