Chairman Leahy: Speaker Boehner killed FOIA reform

Sen Patrick Leahy (D-VT) officially declared reforms to the Freedom of Information Act dead, as the House gaveled out of session. And he blamed Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) for its death.

"And Boehner kills #FOIA improvements," Sen Leahy tweeted after the House finished its work on the "cromnibus" government funding bill. “In a political climate as divided as this, I had hoped that we could come together in favor of something as fundamental to our democracy as the public’s right to know," Sen Leahy said.