If you walked into a store and paid for an item, would you leave it behind? Me either. Therefore, there should be no reason this kind of information is paid for by tax payers, provided to our elected representatives to inform them, but not, until now, diseminated and made more easily accessible to the public.

You paid for it. Don't walk out the door without it. Go ahead, be an informed citizen.

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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 through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.