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Wikileaks Hits The Jackpot With Congressional Research Service

A bunch of folks have been submitting the rather impressive fact that Wikileaks now has 6,780 reports from the Congressional Research Service free to download. As the post on Wikileaks notes, CRS...

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Congressional Research Service Analysts Complaining About Blocked Access To...

With the Library of Congress blocking access to Wikileaks over some misguided notion of what its legal responsibilities are, Copycense points us to a report about how librarians across the nation are...

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Ask Congress To Make Public Domain Congressional Research Service's Reports...

A couple of years ago, we wrote about how the Congressional Research Service's reports were technically public domain, but were often hidden from the public by a Congress, who doesn't want you to see...

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Congressional Research Service Shows Hollywood Is Thriving

The Congressional Research Service is the research arm of Congress that is widely respected as presenting (non-partisan) high quality, extremely credible research for folks in Congress. In fact, the...

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Resolution Introduced To Make Public Domain Congressional Research Finally...

For years, we've been noting the absurdity of how Congress keeps the output of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) totally secret. As you hopefully know, works produced by the federal government...

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Congressional Research Service Takes On The Question Of Patent Trolls

As we've discussed in the past, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) produces tons of research for Congress -- much of which never sees the light of day. In general, CRS is considered extremely...

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Congressional Research Service Analysts Complaining About Blocked Access To...

With the Library of Congress blocking access to Wikileaks over some misguided notion of what its legal responsibilities are, Copycense points us to a report about how librarians across the nation are...

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Ask Congress To Make Public Domain Congressional Research Service's Reports...

A couple of years ago, we wrote about how the Congressional Research Service’s reports were technically public domain, but were often hidden from the public by a Congress, who doesn’t want you to see...

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Congressional Research Service Shows Hollywood Is Thriving

The Congressional Research Service is the research arm of Congress that is widely respected as presenting (non-partisan) high quality, extremely credible research for folks in Congress. In fact, the...

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Resolution Introduced To Make Public Domain Congressional Research Finally...

For years, we’ve been noting the absurdity of how Congress keeps the output of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) totally secret. As you hopefully know, works produced by the federal government...

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Congressional Research Service Takes On The Question Of Patent Trolls

As we’ve discussed in the past, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) produces tons of research for Congress — much of which never sees the light of day. In general, CRS is considered extremely...

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Overcriminalization: Congressional Research Service Doesn't Have The Manpower...

A new video from the Cato Institute discusses the issue of overcriminalization, which is quite interesting: The video discusses the book Three Felonies a Day by Harvey Silvergate, which we’ve mentioned...

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Congress Continues To Withhold Congressional Research Service Documents From...

The Congressional Research Service conducts research for Congress on a multitude of topics. This information is (theoretically) used to guide policy decisions. The research itself is (again,...

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Shameful: House Panel Votes Down Plan To Make Public Domain Congressional...

For many, many years, we’ve complained about the fact that research reports from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) are kept secret. CRS is basically a really good, non-partisan research...

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This Is Huge: New Project Releases All Current (Non-Confidential)...

Going back nearly a decade, we’ve been talking about the ridiculousness of Congress refusing to publicly release reports from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). As we’ve discussed many times,...

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Congressional Research Service Reports Now Officially Publicly Available

For many, many years we’ve been writing about the ridiculousness of the Congressional Research Service’s reports being kept secret. If you don’t know, CRS is a sort of in-house think tank for...

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