article_snippet: The Federal Records Act requires employees of executive branch agencies to keep employees of executive branch agencies emails and make their emails available for permanent retention.
article_snippet: Stories about government higher-ups using private email addresses for government work are nothing new.
article_snippet: One Obama administration official, former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson, used an email address with fictitious name attached – 'Richard Windsor.'
article_snippet: Members of Congress typically have private email addresses, something that's not prohibited under federal law for officials in the government's legislative branch.
article_snippet: Federal law does, however, prohibit Members of Congress from using Members of Congress taxpayer-funded 'mail.house.gov' or 'senate.gov' addresses for fundraising and other political activity.