Editing Stopping the Disinformation Playbook (section)

===Congress:===

* Develop ways to limit access to and influence over decisionmakers through financial contributions.
* Maintain a commitment to protecting whistle-blowers and preventing retaliation for allegations related to agency scientific integrity policies, especially as they relate to interference with or manipulation of federal science for private gain.
* Investigate allegations of compromised scientific integrity, conflicts of interest, and other violations of ethics rules in the federal agency decisionmaking process, and make the results of this investigation readily available to the American people.
* Close loopholes in the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The legislation should extend the act’s rules to cover advisory committees organized by federal contractors, not just committees convened directly by an agency. Committee members, including nonvoting members who regularly attend meetings, should be asked to provide complete information on affiliations and conflicts of interest.
* Require that all individuals providing testimony before Congress disclose financial conflicts of interest , including non-government funding, in their public testimony.
* Reject the Financial Choice Act and similar legislative proposals that undermine the ability of investors to engage with public companies on social, environmental, and governance issues.
* Oppose any legislative attempts (like the Regulatory Accountability Act and the HONEST Act) to dismantle the science-based system for shaping and upholding public protections by creating more opportunity for industry lobbyists to obstruct or unduly influence the rule-making process.
* Direct the National Academy of Sciences to explore appropriate responses for scientists and institutions facing harassment or intrusive open records requests that interfere with their ability to pursue research.
* Leverage technology and innovation to make federal processes for gathering public input more inclusive and participatory so that disproportionately impacted communities, such as low-income communities and communities of color, can contribute meaningfully and sufficiently.