Sauna end WASHINGTON DC 20510 March 6 2017 President Donald Trump The White House 1600 Ave NW Washington DC 20500 Dear President Trump It is now over one month into your Administration and you have yet to announce whether you will continue a policy of transparency with respect to individuals who visit the White House complex The Obama Administration made White House visitor logs available on a regular basis These logs provided the American public an unprecedented look at who was lobbying his Administration without compromising the President s ability to execute the functions of his of ce on a day-to-day basis Under this policy the logs were released 90 to 120 days after they were created If you continue this policy we should expect to see visitor logs from your White House as soon as April 20 2017 If you decide to stop or weaken this policy it will be seen as yet another instance of you retreating from your campaign commitments to drain the swamp Some of us have already written to you raising concerns about transparency at your Winter White House at Mar-a- Lago in a letter dated February 3 2017 Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Tom Udall asked you to make the Mar-a Lago membership and visitor lists public and take steps to ensure no person would be have illegal or unsecured access to you when you are working there Your Administration never responded to that letter despite you having already made four trips to Mar- a Lago since your inauguration Subsequent events during these visits do not inspire con dence that you take transparency or security during these visits seriously Another group of Senators has asked your White House Counsel for more information about the role Wall Street billionaire Carl Icahn is playing as your special advisor for cutting regulations In a letter dated February IS 2017 those Senators asked whether Mr Icahn had provided any nancial disclosures to your Administration whether he would have special access to government information or policy makers and whether any he would be prohibited from providing advice in areas where he has obvious financial con icts of interest One way to provide assurances that your Administration is listening to the voices of all Americans not just friends and donors who have a nancial self-interest to influence government policy is to let everyone know who is meeting with you and your staff Your counsel never responded to that letter Regrettably the cloak of secrecy seems to be falling over more and more parts of your Administration Efforts to con rm several of your more controversial cabinet nominees and your nominee to the Supreme Court have been spearheaded by so-called dark money groups that have raised millions of dollars from undisclosed sources to spend on getting these nominees confirmed As a result the American people have no idea whether companies that stand to bene t from changes to federal policy are making a down-payment for those changes by secretly supporting your nominees Continuing President Obama s transparency policies would help dispel concerns that the wealthy and the well-connected have unfair access to your White House Accordingly we ask that you advise us of the following 0 Have you decided to continue the policy of releasing White House visitor logs to the public If so are you making any changes to that policy and why I Will you be extending the Workers and Visitors Entry System WAVES and Access Control Records ACR which form the basis form visimr disclosures to other locations that you visit regularly and to which the public has access like Mar-a Lago We see no reason why you would be unable to continue policies of your predecessor And we urge you to extend those policies to address your decision to regularly conduct of cial business at private properties that also provide access to certain members of the public We request the courtesy of an answer to these questions no later than March 15 2017 Sincerely don Whitehouse Ron Wyden i United States Senator United States Senator 6t Reed Thomas R Carper 1ted States Senator United States Senator Tom Udall Kirsten E Gillibrand United States Senator States Senator Richard Blumenthal Chris Van Hollen United States Senator United States Senator tlnittd E-wtatts Earnatr WASHINGTON DC 20510 March 6 2017 William J Callahan Deputy Director U S Secret Service 245 Murray Drive SW Building T5 Washington DC 20223 Dear Deputy Director Callahan We write for information on the continuation and potential extension of the policy of providing public access to visitor logs for the White Heuse complex and to request you commit to similar measures fer Mar-a-Lago and other locations where the President regularly conducts of cial business This policy adopted to cover records starting in September 2009 is responsible for making public the names of nearly six million visitors to the White House As of the date of this letter the Trump Administration has not indicated whether it will continue this policy it would be a signi cant setback to efforts to give the public insight into who influences the White House if this policy were to be discontinued or limited Indeed given the unique aspects of how President Trump has decided to conduct of cial business we believe he needs to do even more just to meet the benchmark of transparency set by President Obama President Trump has already taken four trips to his so-called Winter White House at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida during which he conducted of cial business in full view of Mar-a-Lago members and their guests During his transition then President-elect Trump worked at the Trump Tower and the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster New Jersey two locations that are also open to certain members of the public Recently released audio of one post-election visit to Bedminster captured then President-elect Trump inviting members to come around as he interviewed people to serve in his Administration President Trump s conduct of of cial business at private property to which some members of the public have access appears to be unprecedented in recent times While we appreciate that every President has the right to some privacy when not in the White House this President has invited members of the public who in many cases have paid signi cant amounts of money for access to him to watch of cial business be conducted and has in some cases sought their advice during these breaks from Washington To help us understand what steps this Administration is doing to maintain transparency and ensure proper vetting of individuals with access to the President and his staff we request answers to the following questions What determination if any has been made to continue making White House visitor logs from the Workers and Visitors Entry System WAVES and the Access Control Records system ACR available to the public I If there is a plan to continue to make these records available will the policy differ from President Obama s If so how and why - Are the WAVES and the ACR systems being used for Mar-a Lago If not what other steps are being taken to conduct background checks people who will be present during President Trump s trips to Mar-a Lago I Is the Secret Service considering extending these systems or any other security screenings for Trump Tower Bedminster or other Trump properties at which the President may spend time conducting of cial businesses If not why not a If security screening systems are being put in place outside the White House who will be responsible for collecting and maintaining these records what information will be collected and where and in what format it will be stored Will information from those systems be made available to the public ' If so will that information be disclosed under the same conditions as White House visitor logs in the Obama Administration We request the courtesy of an answer to these questions no later than March 15 2017 Sincerely don Whitehouse United States Senator diary Reed 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