EveryCRSReport.com: New Resource Provides Free Access to Over 8,000 Reports from the Congressional Research Service

UPDATE: Here’s the Official Launch Blog Post
From the Website:

EveryCRSReport.com includes 8,255 CRS reports. The number changes regularly.
It’s every CRS report that’s available on Congress’s internal website.
We redact the phone number, email address, and names of virtually all the analysts from the reports. We add disclaimer language regarding copyright and the role CRS reports are intended to play. That’s it.
If you’re looking for older reports, our good friends at CRSReports.com may have them.
We also show how much a report has changed over time (whenever CRS publishes an update), provide RSS feeds, and we hope to add more features in the future.

Who is Making This Resource Available?

Until today, CRS reports were generally available only to the well-connected.
Now, in partnership with a Republican and Democratic member of Congress, we are making these reports available to everyone for free online.
A coalition of public interest groups, journalists, academics, students, some Members of Congress, and former CRS employees have been advocating for greater access to CRS reports for over twenty years. Two bills in Congress to make these reports widely available already have 10 sponsors (S. 2639 and H.R. 4702, 114th Congress) and we urge Congress to finish the job.
EveryCRSReport.com is a project of Demand Progress in collaboration with the Congressional Data Coalition — a bipartisan coalition founded by Demand Progress and the R Street Institute to promote open legislative information.
 

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