Q&A: Sunshine Week With U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

Mar. 10, 2023

Q: What is Sunshine Week?

 A: Sunshine Week celebrates the public’s right to know what its government is doing. As a watchdog for good government, I put a high priority on strengthening sunshine laws to hold the government accountable to the American people. Transparency brings accountability. Too often, the federal bureaucracy forgets that government business is the people’s business. Just consider one of our nation’s first and prolific defenders of open government. James Madison recognized how important transparency was to get buy-in from the victors of the Revolutionary War to form a new government. Americans who shed blood to free themselves from tyranny would want constitutional guardrails to prevent encroachment of these freedoms for generations to come. Sunshine Week honors Madison’s legacy on the anniversary of his birth on March 16, 1751.

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