[Mr. K]

Isn’t the “Presidential Records Act” nothing more than Obama’s very first executive order?

[GregNH]

If that is the "act" that is being referenced, then yes.

[Nero Germanicus]

The Presidential Records Act of 1978
https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/laws/1978-act.html

[ichabod1]

Anything with the word ‘act’ in it usually means Act of Congress.

[Liz]

Isn’t the “Presidential Records Act” nothing more than Obama’s very first Executive Order? (hat tip Mr. K)

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TALKING POINTS: As the new president, Obama took a couple of steps to ease and speed the overall process for the release of presidential records.

<><> On his first day in office, Obama rolled back a Bush executive order that historians complained gave the families of deceased presidents too much power to withhold presidential records. (A judge had blocked part of that order in 2007.)

<><> And in 2014, Obama signed a law that capped the amount of time historical presidential records can remain under pre-release review by the White House Counsel's Office. That measure has dramatically reduced delays in disclosure of presidential records, which sometimes spent a year or more awaiting final White House clearance to be revealed to the public.

UPDATE (Sunday, 9:50 a.m): This post has been updated with comment from the White House.

SOURCE Josh Gerstein, senior reporter, POLITICO, 1/8/17.