Sec. 753. Findings and sense of the Senate
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The Senate makes the following findings: According to a report released by the Office of the Director of Intelligence in 2020 titled Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report on Security Clearance Determinations , more than 4,000,000 individuals have been granted eligibility for a security clearance. At least 1,300,000 of such individuals have been granted access to information classified at the Top Secret level. It is the sense of the Senate that— the classification system of the Federal Government is in urgent need of reform; the number of people with access to classified information is exceedingly high and must be justified or reduced; reforms are necessary to reestablish trust between the Federal Government and the people of the United States; and classification should be limited to the minimum necessary to protect national security while balancing the public’s interest in disclosure.