Across the Hill: The congressional research service and providing research for congress — A retrospective on personal experience

The Congressional Research Service (CRS), a reconstituted version of the Legislative Reference Service which Congress had launched in 1914 and statutorily gave institutional status in 1946, was established in a 1970 reform law This retrospective is the personal account of one analyst's experience working for CRS from its initial years until January 2009. The account, it should be kept in mind, is highly particularistic, based upon the author's unique experience in one section of a division of CRS with responsibilities for his assigned subject areas concerning government operations and procedures.