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: Sunlight FoundationBill Closing SEC FOIA Exemption Goes to the President
By Daniel Schuman
Yesterday the House passed legislation to close a loophole that may have allowed the SEC to disregard certain FOIA requests. The Senate passed identical legislation on Wednesday; S. 3717 now goes to the President for his signature. Many organizations, including the Sunlight Foundation, had called for removal of the exemption which was created in the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory bill passed earlier this year.
Full post as published by Sunlight Foundation on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).
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