House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) says he wants to work with the committee's top Democrat to reform how documents 'are boxed up when they leave the president and vice president's office.'
of documents and the increasing wish for reform after documents were found at the personal residences and offices of a handful former presidents and vice presidents."We have to reform the way that documents are boxed up when they leave the president and vice president's office," Comer said Monday at an event at the National Press Club.
Comer, who chairs the committee with oversight authority over the National Archives, said he wants to work with Rep. Jamie Raskin to find a legislative fix on the role of the archives. "Somebody needs to oversee all the documents that are going into boxes to make sure they're not classified and if there's a problem, then they need to iron it out before that document is put into that box and loaded on the truck," he said.
"There's no hurry on this right now, this just needs to happen prior to this administration going out of office and the next administration coming in."on CBS News' "Face the Nation" that he, too, thinks there is bipartisan support for reform. "We've got a problem in terms of both classification levels, how senior elected officials when they leave government, how they handle documents, we've had too many examples of this," Warner told CBS.The House Oversight Committee will conduct a transcribed interview with National Archives General Counsel Gary Stern on Tuesday.
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