i work for congressman mike quigley in chicago. my boss introduced a bill, transparency in government act and a long list of pro transparency elements. one of them is making crs reports public. so first i want to start by saying thank you to everyone who works at crs. as a staffer of find the information you provide invaluable. our purpose is to share that with the public. our logic is fairly simple. it is that u.s. tax dollars pay for crs. they should have access to most of the report. the language in the bill is crafted very carefully because we are not arguing for the altering rights for same access members of congress have. we think the relationship crs has with congress and staff is hugely important. it wouldn't allow members of the public to request reports or have access to personal information. any of that. it would be strictly reports that already exist. nothing confidential would be available. and we already established today that most of them are already as we know and often times people are being charged instead of gett

-- darrell issa and mike quigley. first, we will have a brief history of crs and we will have one or two questions. i will ask the first questions, then all of you will love the opportunity to engage in conversation. there are a number of open questions that i hope will be met today. as the and a little expertise eroded over time? our products and reports as relevant, accurate, and as understandable as they need to be? should the reports be available to the general public? they are coming to some extent now, but should day customarily been? my organization has called for public access to the general distribution reports, and finally what is the 21st century congressional research service look like. when they go to cornell to look at the constitution and see it annotated, when they search youtube for legal briefings and when they tried to get a links to support? with that, i will engage in a very brief history. as we come up on almost 100 the birthday, it was first organizer budget appropriations in 1914, but it did no