"If the President is going to take to social media to make sudden public policy proclamations, we must ensure that these statements are documented and preserved for future reference", said Quigley.
Earlier this year, he introduced the MAR-A-LAGO Act, which would require the administration to publish the visitor logs tied to the White House and any other location, like Trump's luxurious private club in Palm Beach, where the president conducts official business.
Ironically, the term that spawned from President Donald Trump's late-night Twitter typo and nearly broke the internet, might now force the commander-in-chief to think twice before launching groan-inducing tirades on social media.
Quigley, who is a co-founder and co-chairman of the Congressional Transparency Caucus, went on to note that the National Archives had released guidance stating that social media merits historical recording.
If passed, the president's social media messages would be officially covered under the Presidential Records Act, which governs the archival records of the presidency, including the preservation and publication of the records.
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The law would bar the prolifically tweeting president from deleting his posts, as he has sometimes done.
"Despite the constant negative press covfefe", Trump tweeted around midnight/a .
Amid the confusion surrounding the legitimacy of his statements made on Twitter, Trump's tweets have raised ethical concerns as well. Committee members sent a letter to the White House out of concerns about the potential for violating the Presidential Records Act with respect to President Trump's use of Twitter. For example, Trump announced last week on Twitter he would nominate Christopher A. Wray as the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Trump's tweets on his controversial executive order have not only drawn sharp criticism, but have also been used in court rulings blocking the ban from taking effect.
Quigley's bill would mean that all of Trump's social media posts are preserved, regardless of the account.
The amusingly titled "Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement", or the COVFEFE Act, is the work of Mike Quigley (D-IL), who named the bill in a nod to one of Donald Trump's more infamous Twitter rants.
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