In the race to open Congress’s secretive think tank, a new trove of confidential research goes public

The Washington Post: A new website is cracking open Congress’s secretive in-house think tank with a free, publicly accessible archive of 33,000 research reports on public policy issues from the U.S. Postal Service to Bitcoin.

CRSReports.com joins at least two other efforts to wrest the highly regarded studies by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service from the confidential files of Senate and House lawmakers, who request the research and keep it secret unless they choose to release it themselves.

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