Sec. 1097. Access of employees of congressional support offices to department of defense facilities
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Congress finds that Congressional support offices perform a critical role in enabling Congress to carry out its Constitutionally-mandated task of performing oversight of the executive branch. The Secretary of Defense shall provide employees of any Congressional support office who work on issues related to national security with access to facilities of the Department of Defense in the same manner, and subject to the same terms and conditions, as employees of the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and Senate.
In this section, the term Congressional support office means any of the following: The Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress. The Government Accountability Office.