Good morning, Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Leahy, and Members of the Committee. I am pleased to be here today to discuss the Freedom of Information Act and the Department of Justice’s ongoing efforts to encourage agency compliance with the statute as well as with President Obama's Memorandum on the FOIA and Attorney General Holder's FOIA Guidelines. The Department of Justice is strongly committed to the President’s and Attorney General’s vision of open government. My office, the Office of Information Policy (OIP), has undertaken a range of initiatives this past year designed to assist agencies in improving their FOIA administration. Today I would like to highlight some of those efforts, provide an overview of key FOIA statistics and agency successes from this past fiscal year, and outline some of the exciting new initiatives we are undertaking that are designed to help further improve FOIA in the years ahead.