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Congressional Research Service

Research arm of Congress providing legislative analysis
Tracked because Research arm of Congress providing legislative analysis · 13 documented connections
Facts on record1
Connections mapped13
Sources cited11
✦ Thin coverage gap +42 connected to 13 entities · only 1 facts on record · flagged for follow-up research
Evidence: 1S
Stated vs Revealed
No documented contradictions on file.
[PUBLIC COST ESTIMATE]
Documented financial relationships span 0 money flow chains, while 10 elected officials hold documented connections.
0Money Chains
0Traced Hops
Connected Officials
Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

PATTERN government agency → [indirect reference] → elected offici... 243× PATTERN organization → [donor] → elected official → [indirect ref... 243× PATTERN company → [contractor] → institution → [oversight] → gove... 192× PATTERN organization → [donor] → person → [potential data source]... 180× PATTERN government agency → [potential data source] → person → [d... 180×
Connection Map
Key Connections
← National Security Agency (NSA) institution
oversight
The NSA's dual reporting structure was created by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which created the DNI position without removing NSA from DoD.
← SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121 instrument
oversight
Both chambers of the U.S. Congress passed H.J.Res.109 in May 2024 to disapprove SAB 121 under the Congressional Review Act; the resolution was vetoed by President Biden on May 31, 2024.
← Shyam Sankar person
Research Methodology Note
Manual compilation of Sankar's SEC Form 4 transactions from EDGAR is required because no single database aggregates these across multiple years.
Facts (1)
Data Freshness
Ageing Last update: 176d ago · Avg age: 2419d
Confidence Tiers: Primary Source — cross-referenced government/corporate filings Pending Review — sourced but not independently verified AI Inference — analytical hypothesis from cross-referencing
✓ Verified Findings (1)
Independently re-checked: a second model read the source artifact and confirmed it supports the extracted claim.
✓ verified Partially Corroborated Congressional Research Service filed filing with the SEC on 2014-05-13. Accession number: N/A.
All Connections (13)
→ Jacob Straus person
affiliation secondary since 2026
Jacob Straus is a specialist at the Congressional Research Service, likely an author or analyst on related reports.
← Legislative Resource Center government agency
related legislative support agency inferential since 1995
The Legislative Resource Center and the Congressional Research Service both provide research and document access services to Members of Congress and the public.
← John Joyce person
potential data source inferential since 2025
Listed among potential research tools (LegiStorm, Quiver Quantitative, GuruFocus, TrendSpider, Congressional Research Service) relevant to Joyce's disclosed financial and legislative data.
← Salud O. Carbajal person
potential constituent resource inferential since 2024
Carbajal's district data references statistics from LegisLetter ACS, a service associated with CRS data.
← Shyam Sankar person
Research Methodology Note primary since 2026
Manual compilation of Sankar's SEC Form 4 transactions from EDGAR is required because no single database aggregates these across multiple years.
← Elizabeth Warren elected official
Legislative research inferential since 2013
As a Senator, Warren would have access to and use Congressional Research Service reports for policy development.
← Chuck Schumer elected official
resource/institutional connection secondary since 1999
As a U.S. Senator, Schumer is served by the Congressional Research Service (referenced via Jacob Straus). CRS provides research and analysis to members of Congress including Schumer.
← Quiver Quantitative company
co-listed / industry comparator inferential since 2026
Quiver Quantitative is listed in the same untrusted data block as Congressional Research Service, suggesting they are related in the context of financial data aggregation for congressional tracking.
← TrendSpider company
co-listed in search scope inferential since 2026
TrendSpider is listed alongside Congressional Research Service and Jacob Straus in the same search scope note context, suggesting they were part of the same investigative search batch or related financial/regulatory research domain.
Potential analytical interest inferential since 2026
DOGE's novel regulatory status as first documented government entity maintaining SEC filing obligations without corporate registration or lobbying compliance would be subject of analysis by CRS.
oversight primary since 2024
Both chambers of the U.S. Congress passed H.J.Res.109 in May 2024 to disapprove SAB 121 under the Congressional Review Act; the resolution was vetoed by President Biden on May 31, 2024.
oversight primary since 2004
The NSA's dual reporting structure was created by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which created the DNI position without removing NSA from DoD.
← Roger Wicker elected official
indirect_reference inferential since 2024
The documented facts reference congressional research context but no direct connection to Wicker is stated.
Sources (11)
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Congressional Research Service — USASpending contracts (no results) contract Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Congressional Research Service — Corporate registrations (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Congressional Research Service — Parliamentary records (no results) parliamentary_record Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Congressional Research Service — Court records (no results) court_document Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Congressional Research Service — Lobbying disclosures (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt