The bill, like Trump's tweets, raises loads of tough questions. How could
tweets, of all things, be considered federal records? What constitutes a
record? And why do we even make these distinctions in 2017, when electronic
storage is cheap and plentiful and we can keep everything?

Let's start with the Federal Records Act. Enacted in 1950, it's the guide
for how the U.S. government keeps its records. In 2014, the Obama
administration updated it, modernizing the definitions to include
electronic documents. That update also granted the Archivist of the United
States (yes, we have one) full discretion to determine what constitutes a
federal record.


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