This is something that the GOP could have insisted on at least 2 years ago but they were too busy on the golf course and wining & dining each others --and fundraising. Especially the latter. SOBs.
James Buchanan's men were notorious for scrubbing nasty rumors about Buchanan from the net.
And again, I have no problem with a measure that would force presidential candidates to release birth records as well as all medical and academic records in order to run for president.