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, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports that are already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.
This should be nice to have…
CRS Reports do not become public until a member of Congress releases the report. A number of libraries and non-profit organizations have sought
to collect as many of the released reports as possible. Open CRS is a centralized utility that brings together these collections to search.
Unfortunately, there is no systematic way to obtain all CRS reports. Because of this, not all reports appear on the Open CRS web site. CDT believes that it would be far preferable for Congress to make available to the public all CRS Reports.
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Help add to the Open CRS collection. Call your member of Congress and request a PDF copy of the following CRS Report. Once you receive it, submit it to Open CRS.
Order Code: RS21526
Title: ESOP Legislative History
