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it's important for the Congress to have its own independent think tank because they're inundated with information but the information that they get from everyone else has a slant to it there's a lobbyist there's an interest group there's a constituent there's everyone who wants something out of the legislation what the Congress needs is someone who can evaluate these competing priorities who can evaluate for them the information and the arguments and has as its responsibility providing an objective nonpartisan balanced information the accumulated wisdom and experience of all civilized governments has been assembled here interpreted classified briefed ready for the industrious legislature it will enable Congress to profit by the trials experiments and approve judgments of all other nations these words were written by Robert M La Follette senior on July 4th 1914 after the Senate passed his appropriations bill authorizing the creation of what is today the Congressional Research Service CR