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The Open FOIA Act is different from the Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act. Leahy and Cornyn introduced it in March. More here: http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200903/031709c.html
It's in the appropriations bill - scroll past the Detainee Photo section: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2346/text?version=eas&nid=t0:eas:700
Open FOIA Act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.612:
To amend section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code (commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act) to provide that statutory exemptions to the disclosure requirements of that Act shall specifically cite to the provision of that Act authorizing such exemptions, to ensure an open and deliberative process in Congress by providing for related legislative proposals to explicitly state such required citations, and for other purposes....
P.S. Executive Orders aren't bipartisan and are too "Bush-like." Obama can't have that.
