The Ranking Members on each of those committees had introduced Resolutions of Inquiry, a rarely-used legislative tool directing the executive branch to disclose information to Congress.
Army officials said privately the timing was just a coincidence and insisted the Army's Office of Legislative Affairs was simply responding to requests for information from Congress.
MS. RICHARDSON: Whether companies should be responsible for removing personally identifiable information before sharing cyberthreat information is shaping up to be one of the biggest fights in the legislative realm.
The Freedom of Information Act is about to go through a process known in Whitehall jargon as 'post-legislative scrutiny' or, in other words, examining how it is working in practice.