\r\n\r\n“(b) Records created, generated, or received by the\r\ncongressional office of a Member, Delegate, or the Resident\r\nCommissioner in the performance of official duties are exclusively\r\nthe personal property of the individual Member, Delegate, or the\r\nResident Commissioner and such Member, Delegate, or Resident\r\nCommissioner has control over such records.”.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
\r\nPrivatizing official records of Congress; what will they think of next?\r\nThis is\r\n\r\n the opposite of a sunshine law.\r\nMaybe a solar eclipse rule?\r\n
\r\nThis discovery owed to Pastor Lindsey Williams of Virginia.\r\n
\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n
Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research. You can donate to LAKE today<\/a>!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don’t think those words mean what they think they mean. “Official duty” and “personal property” generally are opposites, but the U.S. House this month defined them to be the same. Proposed by Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R-CA-23], and passed 4:02 PM 3 January 2017 by a straight party-line vote, it’s H.Res.5 – Adopting […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[3200,8701,577,9584,8702,8710,12,7,9583,9582,8700,6],"class_list":["post-18056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-transparency","tag-congress","tag-georgia","tag-house","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-lake","tag-law","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-official","tag-personal","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-4He","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18059,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18056\/revisions\/18059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\r\nProposed by\r\n\r\nMajority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R-CA-23]<\/a>,\r\nand\r\npassed 4:02 PM 3 January 2017<\/a>\r\nby\r\n\r\na straight party-line vote<\/a>,\r\nit’s\r\n\r\nH.Res.5 – Adopting rules for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress.<\/a>\r\n