Transparency Advocates Respond to Senator’s Demand for FOIA Audit at NIH

Sen. Roger Marshall is demanding a full audit of FOIA requests at the National Institutes of Health.
Transparency Advocates Respond to Senator’s Demand for FOIA Audit at NIH
Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) asks a question during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this file photograph. Leigh Vogel/Getty Images
Mark Tapscott
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Sen. Roger Marshall may not get the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) compliance audit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) he demands, but the Kansas Republican could still be cracking open the door to a new era in government transparency.

As The Epoch Times reported June 17, Mr. Marshall told the inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) he wants the internal government watchdog to dig up every fact, good or bad, about how NIH has complied with the federal transparency law going back all the way to 2014.
Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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