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Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will give this FOI Day program's luncheon keynote address.

Panels will address:

·   Overclassification, Declassification, and Executive Order Change – an analysis of national secur­ity classification under existing Executive Order 12,958, as well as the prospects for its revision.

·   “Bailing Out on Transparency” – a critical consideration of the openness limitations of the gov­ern­ment’s recent “TARP,” financial industry bailout, and economic stimulus-related activities.

·   “Born Digital But Preserved in Hard Copy?” – discussions of E-Gov and records-management practices as  vital found­a­tions of all disclosure regimes, with emphasis on much-needed reforms.

·   “CUI or See You Later” – an up-to-date look at the continuing murky world of “pseudosecrecy.”

·   An Early Assessment of the Obama Administration – in the two months since President Obama stunned the openness-in-government community and federal workforce alike with his strong pro-disclosure words and “Day One” transparency and FOIA memoranda, has that momen­­tum carried forward or has it lagged, including as to implementation of the 2007 FOIA Amendments?