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Kevin Kosar, a former CRS researcher, said it was unfair to the public that the CRS keeps its front door closed while the reports can legally move through other channels. “You have 20,000 congressional staff who are free to hand out CRS reports like candy,” said Kosar, now a senior fellow and government project director with the conservative R Street Institute, and who has also written for POLITICO. “It’s just that most of America doesn’t know where to look for them.”
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