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New call for public access to Secret Congressional Reports
by
Kevin Kosar
May 4, 2017
originally published in
Roll Call
…“Why keep CRS reports officially unavailable to the public, yet easily findable to folks within the Beltway who are in the know?” said Kevin Kosar, a former analyst at the Congressional Research Service, who has become one of the leading advocates for opening much of its records.
Kosar, now a vice president at the R Street Institute, was among three witnesses on Wednesday who called for the reports to be made public…
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