Daschle Puts Nearly 300 CRS Reports on Internet

[Gary Ruskin <gary@essential.org>]

Congressional Reform Briefings			February 2, 1999

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Good news: Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) has placed almost 300 Congressional
Research Service (CRS) Reports on the Internet at
http://www.senate.gov/~dpc/crs/index.html. Take a look at them. 

Citizens, scholars, journalists, librarians, businesses, and many others
have long wanted access to CRS reports via the Internet. Senator Daschle's
Internet collection of CRS reports represents only about 1/10th of the
current library of CRS reports.  But it is a good first step toward
providing the public with easy access to CRS Reports.  

On June 10, 1998 the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration advised
Senators that "With the rapidly expanding use of the Internet, we believe
it is appropriate for Members and Committees to use their web sites to
further disseminate CRS products....we encourage you to post CRS products
on your web site."  Apparently Sen. Daschle did exactly that -- and he
deserves our thanks.  You might send him an e-mail at
<tom_daschle@daschle.senate.gov> to:
1.	Thank him for placing the CRS reports on the Internet; and,
2.	Ask him to put all CRS reports and products on his web site.

For a sense of the richness of the full collection of CRS Reports, see the
Pennyhill Press site, http://pennyhill.com/, which sells CRS Reports, and
claims to have nearly all abstracts of all CRS Reports. 

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