House votes to preserve White House e-mails

The House moved Wednesday to impose new rules to preserve e-mails from the White House and other federal agencies, acting in defiance of a veto threat from President Bush. The Electronic Message Preservation Act would direct the archivist of the United States to draw up new rules for preserving electronic records. The measure was in response to an uproar over e-mails found missing by recent Capitol Hill probes of Bush aides, including Rove, then the president's chief political strategist. Investigators have tried to determine whether Rove and others used Republican National Committee e-mail accounts to conduct government business in an attempt to circumvent the Presidential Records Act, a post-Watergate law designed to preserve White House records. The measure, which passed 286 to 137 in the House on Wednesday, faces an uncertain fate in the Senate.
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