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Open CRS Makes Publicly Funded Research Available to the Public

If our taxes pay for research into things congrescritters are making laws on, shouldn't we be able to read that research easily? Not if you follow the government's reasoning. Open CRS is trying to change that by publishing congressional research reports online. From their web site:

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. A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.

It's amazing how many reports there are on different topics. Worth a bookmark for your researching needs. Link

Posted by Mark Friday, August 19, 2005 11:00:00 PM | permalink |