{"id":3960,"date":"2019-03-20T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:06:17","slug":"gao-versus-the-ghost-of-ota-who-will-win-the-science-and-technology-assessment-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/gao-versus-the-ghost-of-ota-who-will-win-the-science-and-technology-assessment-race\/","title":{"rendered":"GAO versus the ghost of OTA: Who will win the science and technology assessment race?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: R Street Institute, based upon Quorum.us data.<\/p><\/div>\n

Hardly anyone would argue that Congress is well equipped to make technology policy. Very few members are techies, and let\u2019s face it, innovation is hurtling forward at a mind-blowing pace. Nor is Congress and its basic modus operandi \u2014 serving as a bargaining arena for diverse interests \u2014 particularly congenial to the use of data and evidence in decision making.<\/p>\n

So it is that a\u00a0motley crew<\/a>\u00a0(including myself) \u00a0began banging the gong for expanding Congress\u2019 technology and science capacity. One can\u2019t make every representative and senator savvy in cutting edge innovations; but we can surround them with nonpartisan staff who do know tech and science….(Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hardly anyone would argue that Congress is well equipped to make technology policy. Very few members are techies, and let\u2019s face it, innovation is hurtling forward at a mind-blowing pace. Nor is Congress and its basic modus operandi \u2014 serving as a bargaining arena for diverse interests \u2014 particularly congenial to the use of data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-legbranch-com"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-11S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}