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Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service is the public policy resear ch arm of the United States Congress. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS works exclusively and directly for Members of Congress, their Committees and staff on a confidential, nonpartisan basis.
History and Mission
Congress created CRS in order to have its own source of nonpartisan, objective analysis and research on all legislative issues. Indeed, the sole mission of CRS is to serve the United States Congress. CRS has been carrying out this mission since 1914, when it was first established as the Legislative Reference Service. Renamed the Congressional Research Service by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, CRS is committed to providing the Congress, throughout the legislative process, comprehensive and reliable analysis, research and information services that are timely, objective, nonpartisan, and confidential, thereby contributing to an informed national legislature. The Congressional Research Service is the public policy resear ch arm of the United States Congress. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS works exclusively and directly for Members of Congress, their Committees and staff on a confidential, nonpartisan basis.
History and Mission
Congress created CRS in order to have its own source of nonpartisan, objective analysis and research on all legislative issues. Indeed, the sole mission of CRS is to serve the United States Congress. CRS has been carrying out this mission since 1914, when it was first established as the Legislative Reference Service. Renamed the Congressional Research Service by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, CRS is committed to providing the Congress, throughout the legislative process, comprehensive and reliable analysis, research and information services that are timely, objective, nonpartisan, and confidential, thereby contributing to an informed national legislature.
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PolitiFact
April 20, 2018
As this Congressional Research Service chart notes, members' salaries in 2018 is $174,000 — the same as it's been since 2009. (There are exceptions for Speaker of the House, who makes $223,500, and the President pro tempore of the Senate and the majority and minority leaders in the House andÃâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
April 20, 2018
The legal framework governing the deployment and use of armed forces to guard the US border with Mexico is surveyed in a new publication from the Congressional Research Service. See The President's Authority to Use the National Guard or the Armed Forces to Secure the Border, CRS Legal Sidebar,Ãâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
April 19, 2018
But while “the F-35 promises significant advances in military capability…, reaching that capability has put the program above its original budget and behind the planned schedule,” according to the Congressional Research Service. See F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program, updated April 13, 2018.
USNI News
April 19, 2018
The following is the April 5, 2018 Congressional Research Service report, Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. From the Report: The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a relatively inexpensive surface combatant equipped with modular mission packages. Navy plansÃâà...
Rewire.News
April 18, 2018
New analysis about Republicans' proposed 20-week abortion ban says the common medical procedure is safe, and that delays in care caused by restrictions are why some are forced to seek abortion care later in pregnancy. The Congressional Research Service (CRS), a division of the Library of CongressÃâà...
USNI News
April 18, 2018
The following is the March 26, 2018 Congressional Research Service report, Iran: Politics, Human Rights, and U.S. Policy. From the Report: Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, the United States and Iran have been broadly at odds. During the 1980s and 1990s, U.S. officials identified Iran's supportÃâà...
EFF
April 2, 2018
The recent omnibus bill passed by Congress contains a nugget of good news for those interested in access to publicly funded research. Open access activists have long been asking for reports by the Congressional Research Service, or CRS, to be made publicly and easily available. CRS creates a vastÃâà...
Roll Call
March 29, 2018
When Walter Oleszek was hired at the Legislative Reference Service in 1968, Lyndon Johnson was president. The Legislative Reference Service is now the Congressional Research Service, and Oleszek is still there 50 years later. He has seen a lot of change when it comes to his favorite subject:Ãâà...
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
March 29, 2018
The bill lifted a 64-year-old ban that prevented the highly respected, nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, which is the legislative branch's in-house think tank, from sharing its massive store of knowledge with the public. The service, which is part of the Library of Congress, cranks out more thanÃâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
March 26, 2018
All non-confidential reports of the Congressional Research Service must be made publicly available online through a Government Publishing Office website within 90 to 270 days under a provision of the 2018 omnibus appropriations act that was passed by Congress and signed by the President last week.
vtdigger.org
March 24, 2018
The final bill includes a provision he added to make all non-confidential reports prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) freely available to public schools and libraries across the country. That means they will be freely available online to individuals, schools and universities, researchers,Ãâà...
smallwarsjournal (blog)
March 23, 2018
Iraq's government declared military victory against the terrorist insurgents of the Islamic State group (IS, aka ISIS/ISIL) in December 2017, but counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations against the group are ongoing. Iraqis are shifting their attention toward recovery and the country's political future. SecurityÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 21, 2018
The fiscal 2018 omnibus spending bill includes a provision that would require Congressional Research Service reports be made available to the public, through a website set up by the the Librarian of Congress. The CRS, as it's known, is effectively Congress' in-house think tank. It prepares analysis andÃâà...
WTVD-TV
March 2, 2018
By contrast, it's also unknown how many guns drop out of circulation, either by being destroyed or seized by law enforcement. One estimate said that there were believed to have been 310,000,000 guns in the U.S. in 2009, according to a Congressional Research Service report published in November 2012Ãâà...
Vermont Public Radio
March 2, 2018
According to the Congressional Research Service, Americans own nearly half of the estimated 650 million civilian-owned guns worldwide. Since our gun laws are among the most lenient in the world, and we are reeling from an unprecedented string of school shootings, our students should learn, now, whatÃâà...
The All State
March 2, 2018
CNN also cited the Congressional Research Service, to show that Americans owned approximately 48 percent of the 650 million guns in the world. The Second Amendment is important in its place in history, but it is being abused. People are dying because Americans cannot stand the idea of proper gunÃâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
March 1, 2018
Recent and proposed nuclear weapons-related spending is detailed by Amy F. Woolf of the Congressional Research Service in Energy and Water Development Appropriations: Nuclear Weapons Activities, February 27, 2018. Another new CRS report discusses blockchain, the technology that underliesÃâà...
Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog)
February 21, 2018
The Congressional Research Service found, in any case, that between 1970 and 2013 the days between public mass shootings “have become fewer” as “the incidents have become more prevalent.” And the increase continues. This increase and transformation seems more a cultural happening — aÃâà...
PolitiFact
February 14, 2018
The Congressional Research Service found that from 2007 to 2013, there were seven mass public shootings in which 10 or more people were killed, and two of those incidents happened in schools. Those were the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting and the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School inÃâà...
R Street
February 13, 2018
Recently, leadership of the Congressional Research Service and the Library of Congress were presented with a memorandum. It expressed concern that the agencies' analysts, attorneys, and reference experts were being muzzled a bit. “We are concerned that CRS risks falling short of its mission if it holdsÃâà...
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