Why is Congress so clueless about tech? Because they fired all their experts 20 years ago
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1B9HM)
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")