Skip to comments.
The Congressional Research Service's dirty little Big Green secrets
The Washington Examiner ^
| 12/16/2010
| Ron Arnold
Posted on 12/16/2010 9:17:16 PM PST by Outside da Box
CRS is so secretive that one member of Congress can't find out what it told another. Conversely, if it suits a member's political agenda, he'll get the New York Times to plaster a "confidential" CRS report all over the front page, as Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden did in 2000 with a four-page memo by CRS analyst Ross W. Gorte to bolster his position in a logging controversy.
Gorte, a respected CRS analyst since 1983, has become known in Congress as the "go-to guy" for Big Green's no-development brand of "objective, balanced, nonpartisan" reports.
Critics even call Gorte "the Wilderness Society lobbyist" -- his wife Julie was the society's vice president in the 1990s. Gorte himself admitted, "We use the Wilderness Society's report on public funding and find it very informative."
Gorte and his wife are also officers of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, an anti-development advocate "for preservation of the natural resources."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: congress; crs; gorte; wyden
To: steelyourfaith
2
posted on
12/16/2010 9:22:30 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: steelyourfaith
3
posted on
12/16/2010 9:24:17 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Inyo-Mono
4
posted on
12/16/2010 9:26:27 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: Outside da Box; STARWISE; LucyT
Now this is interesting! Ping
5
posted on
12/16/2010 9:29:32 PM PST
by
Danae
(Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
To: Outside da Box; Carry_Okie; forester; marsh2; Grampa Dave; tubebender; hedgetrimmer
6
posted on
12/16/2010 11:34:39 PM PST
by
SierraWasp
(What's worse... shutting down government, or the private sector with uncertainty???)
To: Outside da Box
If Ron Arnold wrote it, you can bet your last dollar it's true.
The guy is relentless.
7
posted on
12/16/2010 11:38:59 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: Army Air Corps; meyer; Normandy; Whenifhow; TenthAmendmentChampion; Clive; scripter; Darnright; ...
8
posted on
12/17/2010 3:14:17 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
