12: CRS

Carry out the statutory mission of the Congressional Research Service to assist the Congress as it undertakes its legislative responsibilities by providing multi-disciplinary, nonpartisan, confidential, timely, and objective analysis of public policy problems and their possible solutions

Other Information:

Planned Outcome: The Congress receives — at a sustained level of excellence — the timely, authoritative, nonpartisan, and objective legislative analysis and information support it needs as it addresses public policy issues. Performance Measures: 1. Coverage and analyses of current legislative issues, number of issues identified, and the number of reports created and maintained. 2. Development of interdisciplinary coverage and analyses. 3. Realization of capacity requirements –- through permanent and contract staff, retention rate and the number of new hires. 4. Identification and execution of critical staff development needs across all policy areas and supporting activities. 5. Workload and usage statistics of information resources, information technologies, and research methodologies in all policy areas. 6. Prevention of unauthorized access to CRS network.

Stakeholder(s):

• Congress: United States Senate and House of Representatives

Objective(s):

1: Legislative Research Agenda

2: Intellectual Capacity

3: Research Capacity

4: Tools and Techniques

5: Internal Infrastructure

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