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April 21, 2016 05:15 am PDT
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Why is Congress so clueless about tech? Because they fired all their experts 20 years ago
It's been 21 years since the Republican Congress zeroed out the $20M budget of the Office of Technology Assessment, a casualty of Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America" that deprived Congress of its principle source of technological expertise. (more…)
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