[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 3582]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                COMMEMORATING THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF 
                          PUBLIC.RESOURCE.ORG

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                          HON. DARRELL E. ISSA

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 7, 2017

  Mr. ISSA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in recognition of the tenth 
anniversary of Public.Resource.Org, a nonprofit organization promoting 
openness and transparency in all three branches of the federal 
government.
   In the past decade, organizations like Public Resource have been 
instrumental in utilizing modern technology and the Internet as 
vehicles to make the proceedings and reports of the House of 
Representatives readily available to the general public. While I served 
as Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, our 
staff worked with Public Resource to upload a video archive of all its 
proceedings to the Internet and used official transcripts to add closed 
captioning to our hearings. In addition to the Oversight Committee, 
their team uploaded over 3,000 hearings from all committees to the 
Internet Archive, particularly documenting activity in the House from 
2005 through 2011.
   In the Judicial Branch, Public Resource published all the historical 
opinions of the U.S. Court of Appeals and millions of pages of briefs 
from significant judicial opinions. They also worked with numerous 
executive agencies, including the Department of Defense, the Archivist 
of the United States, the National Technical Information Service, and 
the Internal Revenue Service to post thousands of government videos and 
upload over 9 million tax documents of nonprofit organizations for the 
public record.
   As the organization celebrates this milestone, I would like to 
congratulate Public Resource for its service to Congress and the 
ongoing effort to provide American citizens with the tools they need to 
scrutinize the activities of the federal government.

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