Here's the latest from The Memory Hole -
http://www.thememoryhole.org/crs/The MH is looking for help in filling in the gaps left by the abrupt cut-off of these reports on the Web. I wish I'd known about these reports before now... If anyone can help the MH out, I urge you to do so. The MH provides an invaluable resource, and needs all the help it can get.
Other than that, you might want to peruse and save these reports yourself (my gut says the MH may not always be around -- know what I mean?)
(Um, is that five sentences yet? Have I justified my reason for posting this to GD? }()
Over 300 Congressional Research Service Reports That Were Pulled from the Web
The Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress, provides fact-rich, unbiased, nontechnical reports to members of Congress regarding a variety of issues. The CRS does not distribute these reports to the public in any way. You can't get them online, order paper copies from the CRS, or even read them in the Library of Congress. CRS is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. The Service's philosophy is that it works for Congress, not the people, so its publications are deliberately made difficult to get.
A few exceptions exist. Some third parties get selected reports through Congressional representatives, then post them online. The State Department's Website contains CRS reports that State prepared. Penny Hill Press provides all CRS reports, but you have to cough up $29.95 for each report if you're not a subscriber ($7.95 is you are a $299-per-year subscriber). ...
For a while, the Websites of Congressmen Mark Green and Christopher Shays provided a gateway to a CRS internal database, giving us access to a large but still incomplete selection of these reports. ... In mid-October, Green and Shays suddenly shut off access. Since theirs were the only doors into the CRS database, all of us lost access to this rich source of information. Luckily, The Memory Hole had copied many of these reports before the curtain came down. ...
Click the link for reports salvaged by the MH!
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