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HRES 325 115th Congress House Government Operations and Politics Government information and archives News media and reporting Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should retain a protective pool of reporters for purposes of covering the official business of the President, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 16, 2017 Introduced by: Raskin, Jamie Democratic · Maryland See on congress.gov
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May 16, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
May 16, 2017
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Urges the President to: (1) allow the establishment of a protective press pool with access to sufficient information to ensure that the American people are informed accurately and in a timely way on the President's whereabouts and to ensure that the public has broad and honest information about issues of public concern, and (2) preserve the independence of press coverage of matters relating to the President.

    What's happening now May 16, 2017

    Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

     Committees of jurisdiction 1
     Cosponsors 4
    All 4 Democratic 4