House passes bill to require White House to keep e-mails
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Electronic Message Preservation Act (
H.R. 5811) Wednesday by a vote of 286 to 137, scoring a victory for openness in federal agency e-mails. In particular, the bill would preserve White House e-mails and require systems to collect and maintain e-mails in federal agencies. This legislation will help historians and journalists better understand what is happening and why (with the usual exemptions still applying to keep secret information that would harm national security, privacy, etc.).