Good government groups have written to Congress asking them, once again, to take up the issue of making the Congressional Research Service’s products and information available to the public. It’s about time!
In POGO’s 2003 report “Congressional Research Service Products: Taxpayers Should Have Easy Access," we challenged the dubious arguments that the CRS made for why their information should be kept shrouded in secrecy. Since that time, web activists at OpenCRS.com have made the argument for secrecy meaningless by posting many of the CRS’ reports on the web anyway.
-- Beth Daley
"It seems to me that it is time to end the foolishness and just make the CRS website available to the general public." Paul M. Weyrich.
http://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2007/070305.aspx
Posted by: | Apr 11, 2007 at 05:18 PM
Now we will see if the Dems put their money where their mouths are. Now that they control the House and Senate they can do all the talking they want about oversight and access to govt info, but CRS reports have got to be accessible to everyone online! Thanks POGO for crusading on this.
Posted by: Jeff Hamilton | Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51 PM