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<span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><strong>SECRECY NEWS</strong><br />
From the FAS Project on Government Secrecy<br />
Volume 2017, Issue No. 42<br />
June 7, 2017</span></span>
<p style="text-align:left;margin:1em 0;padding:0;color:#606060;font-family:'helvetica';font-size:15px;line-height:150%"><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica neue' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif"><span style="color:#000000">Secrecy News Blog: </span><a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=75263bd5c8&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000"><strong>** CRS TITLES LISTED IN NEW ANNUAL REPORT<br />
** STATE DEPARTMENT PRESS BRIEFINGS RESUME</strong><br />
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<strong>CRS TITLES LISTED IN NEW ANNUAL REPORT</strong><br />
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The Congressional Research Service prepared 1,197 new reports and publications last year, as well as 2,471 updates of previous reports. The new reports were identified by title and number in </span><a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=70736c20fb&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">an internal version of the CRS annual report</span></a><span style="color:#000000"> for fiscal year 2016 that has not been previously made public.<br />
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Among the notable 2016 reports listed in </span><a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=7171b91328&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">the new annual report</span></a><span style="color:#000000"> but not previously cited here were these:</span><br />
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<a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=94bdcab8d6&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">Closing Space: Restrictions on Civil Society Around the World and U.S. Responses</span></a><span style="color:#000000">, April 8, 2016</span><br />
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<a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=6a125cd020&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">U.S. Electronic Attack Aircraft</span></a><span style="color:#000000">, July 26, 2016<br />
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The </span><a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=1c4e75805f&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">public version</span></a><span style="color:#000000"> of the CRS annual report that is </span><a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=3bd83897b5&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">posted on the Library of Congress website</span></a><span style="color:#000000"> is abridged and does not include the listing of new CRS products or other appendices from </span><a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=b0bf69e61d&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">the full report</span></a><span style="color:#000000">.<br />
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Newly updated Congressional Research Service reports from the past week include these:</span><br />
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<a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=f7764839b2&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">Stafford Act Assistance and Acts of Terrorism</span></a><span style="color:#000000">, June 2, 2017</span><br />
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<a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=fa116e3e7e&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">Small Business Administration: A Primer on Programs and Funding</span></a><span style="color:#000000">, June 5, 2017</span><br />
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<a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=4959813ad0&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">The Debt Limit Since 2011</span></a><span style="color:#000000">, June 5, 2017</span><br />
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<a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=fcc34eae63&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">Iran: Politics, Human Rights, and U.S. Policy</span></a><span style="color:#000000">, June 2, 2017<br />
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<strong>STATE DEPARTMENT PRESS BRIEFINGS RESUME</strong><br />
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The Department of State held its first general </span><a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=83b78483ec&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">press briefing on June 6</span></a><span style="color:#000000"> following </span><a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=f7eb100733&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">a five-week hiatus</span></a><span style="color:#000000">.<br />
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Spokesperson Heather Nauert presided over the briefing, which included a typically broad range of press questions and official responses.<br />
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Ms. Nauert said the briefings would resume on a regular schedule from now on.<br />
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"The plan is right now we're going to do twice a week on camera and I look forward to talking with you all otherwise, okay? We'll see you again real soon," </span><a href="http://fas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33c6e6fc9f63792ebcbb7ef9d&id=4bf3740771&e=5d79a030f1" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:#6dc6dd;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:#000000">she said</span></a><span style="color:#000000">.</span></p>
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