Follow up to 22 Former CRS Employees Support Free Public Access to CRS reports this new memorandum via FAS – CRS Policy on Confidentiality: “The purpose of this policy is to ensure that all Congressional Research Service (CRS or Service) employees recognize the long-standing requirement for preserving the confidentiality of our work for Congress and understand the obligations for adhering to this fundamental core value..” [Effective Date 9/22/2015]
- See also, via Daniel Schuman, Demand Progress | Policy Director: the letter from 40 organizations calling for public access (with a
rebuttal of arguments against non-release): https://s3.amazonaws.com/new.demandprogress.org/letters/ Call_for_Public_Access_to_CRS_ Reports_2015-08-24.pdf; a link to a 1-hour panel discussion on public access with Chris
Shays (R-CT), former House counsel Stan Brand, Prue Adler (ARL), Kevin Kosar (formerly CRS, now R Street) and Daniel Schuman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYGknTutpFo; Daniel Schuman’s explanatory blogpost:
https://medium.com/demand-progress/congress-should- publish-all-congressional- research-service-reports- online-16143c7c69b#.p7ix6u82t - Also via the Washington Post – Trying to crack open Congress’s confidential think tank after a century of secrecy
- And via POGO – Congressional Transparency Caucus Drives CRS Reports Talks
- And via Politico – The publicly funded reports you can’t read – Why does Congress want to keep its research under wraps?
