{"id":4000,"date":"2019-06-20T08:41:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2019-06-20T08:41:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:41:35","slug":"today-oversight-hearing-on-the-congressional-research-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/today-oversight-hearing-on-the-congressional-research-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Oversight hearing on the Congressional Research Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Madison-Building-Architect-of-the-Capitol-06-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3997\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/permanent-appropriations-might-they-improve-the-budget-process\/madison-building-architect-of-the-capitol-06-2019\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Madison-Building-Architect-of-the-Capitol-06-2019.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1023,654\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Madison Building Architect of the Capitol 06-2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Madison-Building-Architect-of-the-Capitol-06-2019-300x192.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Madison-Building-Architect-of-the-Capitol-06-2019.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3997\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Madison-Building-Architect-of-the-Capitol-06-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1023\" height=\"654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Madison-Building-Architect-of-the-Capitol-06-2019.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Madison-Building-Architect-of-the-Capitol-06-2019-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Madison-Building-Architect-of-the-Capitol-06-2019-768x491.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 1023px\" \/><\/a>The House Committee on Administration is holding a hearing on the Congressional Research Service (CRS) at 10am today. The hearing may be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cha.house.gov\/hearing\/full-committee-hearing-oversight-congressional-research-service\">viewed online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The CRS is critical to the functioning of Congress. Its analysts and information specialists help congressional staff make policy and oversee the executive and judicial branches. Its importance\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/magazine\/janfeb-2015\/why-i-quit-the-congressional-research-service\/\">cannot be understated<\/a>, and the agency\u2019s history is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonmonthly.com\/magazine\/janfeb-2015\/why-i-quit-the-congressional-research-service\/\">storied<\/a>&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legbranch.org\/today-oversight-hearing-on-the-congressional-research-service\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Committee on Administration is holding a hearing on the Congressional Research Service (CRS) at 10am today. The hearing may be\u00a0viewed online. The CRS is critical to the functioning of Congress. Its analysts and information specialists help congressional staff make policy and oversee the executive and judicial branches. Its importance\u00a0cannot be understated, and the [&hellip;]<\/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":[160,185],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-government-oversight","tag-legbranch-com"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-12w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","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=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}