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Were there circumstances in which the government’s zeal for secrecy could be overridden in the public interest?

The need for longer recordings became “abundantly clear” after the Alaska Airlines incident, Cruz said last week on the Senate floor, when the cockpit recording in the moments after the blowout was overridden.

He’d already overridden the program so that all the oxygen would be delivered to the Workshop, where the virus would become airborne.

But a GOP supermajority in both chambers since last year means Cooper’s veto could be overridden and the bill enacted if Republicans stay united.

With help from several GOP defectors, Democrats narrowly stopped the governor’s veto from being overridden in the House.