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Make CRS Reports Public

Make CRS Reports Public. Make CRS Reports Public. CRS issues reports covering a wide variety of issues that shape legislation and policy, written for the consumption by members Congress and their staff. Make CRS Reports Public .

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Make CRS Reports Public

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  1. Make CRS Reports Public

  2. Make CRS Reports Public • CRS issues reports covering a wide variety of issues that shape legislation and policy, written for the consumption by members Congress and their staff.

  3. Make CRS Reports Public • Congress spends more than $100 million on the Congressional Research Service. • Why shouldn’t the public have the same access?

  4. Make CRS Reports Public • Open CRS • University of North Texas Digital Library • Federation of American Scientists • U.S. State Department

  5. Make CRS Reports Public • We’re not after confidential memoranda!

  6. Make CRS Reports Public • Releasing CRS reports to the public would“fundamentally change [the] longstanding congressional policy [of distributing reports to the public through congressional offices on a selective basis] with potentially significant institutional and legal consequences for CRS…”

  7. Make CRS Reports Public • “The concerns expressed in the CRS memorandum are overstated, or the extent that they are not, provide no basis for arguing that protection of CRS works will be weakened [by legislation to make the reports public].”(emphasis added)

  8. Make CRS Reports Public • Stuck in the 1990s.

  9. Make CRS Reports Public • Reports are non-classified and play a critical role in our legislative process. • They have yet to be made available in a consistent and official way to the public.

  10. Make CRS Reports Public • “It’s like flipping a switch to get these out there.” – Daniel Schuman The Sunlight Foundation Only Congress can make this happen.

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