Recent products of the Congressional Research Service that CRS has not been authorized to release to the public include the following.
Gun Control Legislation, August 3, 2012
El Salvador: Political, Economic, and Social Conditions and U.S. Relations, August 13, 2012
Honduran-U.S. Relations, July 25, 2012
Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Remittances, July 24, 2012
Cyprus: Reunification Proving Elusive, August 13, 2012
Kazakhstan: Recent Developments and U.S. Interests, August 10, 2012
The human cost is measured in deaths. The financial cost is measured in the $52 billion taxpayers pay annually end stage renal disease – double NASA’s budget.
Gilman Louie, Longest Serving Board Chair of the Federation of American Scientists, Named Chair Emeritus
The proposed Office will resurrect the long-closed Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), the archive of which has been maintained by FAS for decades at https://ota.fas.org/.
If Congress needs help understanding the risks and rewards of a piece of technology, they shouldn’t have to rely solely on the sparknotes from a salesman. The rub is much simpler: Congress needs nerds.