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Are House Democrats about to block Obama's new secrecy law?

Defeat of the Graham-Lieberman amendment would be an important blow against secrecy and presidential power abuses.

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    U.S. Government: "to take its rightful place in global leadership, [China] should examine openly the darker events of its past and provide a public accounting"

    http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2009a/06/124292.htm

    Message on the Twentieth Anniversary of Tiananmen Square

    A China that has made enormous progress economically, and that is emerging to take its rightful place in global leadership, should examine openly the darker events of its past and provide a public accounting [...]

    - - Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, June 3, 2009
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