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handle is hein.crs/crsmthmaohq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Response to Wall Street Journal Article From: Director To: All-Staff Date: 3/26/2007 4:42 PM Subject: Response to Wall Street Journal Article I am sharing with you a letter I sent today to the editor of the Wall Street Journal responding to its March 26th article, Earmark Coverup (attached.) The article is replete with mischaracterizations of CRS work and policies. It also contains accusations and insinuations of pressures on CRS to change the way it researches and analyzes appropriations earmarks. Such attacks on our independence cannot go unanswered. The author's erroneous charges not only go to the heart of CRS as an independent and authoritative source of research and analysis for Congress but also impugn the reputation of the agency and its staff for objective analysis on the most difficult and controversial issues facing Congress and the Nation. As I said in my annual address, CRS has recently been subjected to much scrutiny because we have not shied away from analysis of controversial issues. I have responded to Members who have expressed concerns about a product or a particular piece of analysis, defending the authoritative and objective analyses produced by our staff, and I will continue to do so. Nothing is more important to us as an institution and to staff who apply their expertise and judgment in service to Congress than to preserve the Service's reputation for expert, objective and independent research and analysis.

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