Congressional Research Service
American taxpayers spend nearly $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a "think tank" that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Yet, these reports are not made available to the public in a way that they can be easily obtained. CRS Reports do not become public until a member of Congress releases the report. A number of libraries and non-profit organizations have sought to collect as many of the released reports as possible. Open CRS is a centralized utility that brings together these collections to search, but does not have all reports- if you want a report that we don't have, call your representative and ask, then send it on to Open CRS.
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Open Government Advocates Urge Senate to Move on CRS Report Access Statement: CDT is among more than 40 organizations and advocates that signed on to a letter today urging the... |
5/14/2009 | |
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Groups Release Report on Government's "Ten Most Wanted" Documents Press Release: For Immediate release March 20, 2009 Washington, D.C. -- The Center for Democracy & Technology... |
3/20/2009 | |
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CDT Endorses Senate Resolution to Make CRS Documents Available Online Press Release: Contact: Brock N Meeks, CDT (202) 637-9800 ex. 114 (703) 989-3547 (mob) WASHINGTON-CDT... |
11/18/2008 | |
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Easy, Timely, Public Access to CRS Reports Urged Statement: Efforts to make Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports more accessible to the public received... |
2/28/2008 | |
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Anonymous Lawmaker Helps to Build OpenCRS Database Statement: A member of Congress has agreed to provide CDT with a running list of new Congressional Research... |
8/23/2007 |
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| Senate Resolution Pushes for Public Release of CRS Reports | Led by Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), a bipartisan group of Senators has introduced a resolution to... | 5/8/2009 | |
| Open CRS Web Site Shows Great Demand for Congressional Reports | On Monday June 26, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) introduced a new Web site called... | 6/30/2005 |
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