This weeks discovered CRS reports...

Secrecy News released information this week on how the Congressional Research Service (CRS) is further cracking down on the release of CRS reports. They received a copy of a memo to CRS staff in which CRS director Daniel P. Mullohan states "I have concluded that prior approval should now be required at the division or office level before products are distributed to members of the public." While you can always get CRS reports from congressional members, researchers, other government agencies and journalists have also been able to get reports directly from CRS, which now appears to be forbidden.

Here are the latest CRS reports found by OpenCRS and Secrecy News:

• Awards of Attorneys' Fees by Federal Courts and Federal Agencies
• Intelligence Issues for Congress
• China-U.S. Aircraft Collision Incident of April 2001: Assessments and Policy Implications
• The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11
• Medicare's Skilled Nursing Facility Payments
• Long-Term Care: Consumers, Providers, Payers, and Programs
• Platform Equality and Remedies for Rights Holders in Music Act of 2007 (S. 256): Section-by-Section Analysis
• Stock Options: The Backdating Issue
• Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies: FY2007 Appropriations
• An Overview of Recent U.S. Supreme Court Jurisprudence in Patent Law
• Selected Federal Compensation Programs for Physical Injury or Death
• Ethanol and Biofuels: Agriculture, Infrastructure, and Market Constraints Related to Expanded Production
• Recent Changes to the Section 8 Voucher Renewal Funding Formula
• Subprime Mortgages: Primer on Current Lending and Foreclosure Issues
• The Corporation for National and Community Service: Overview of Programs and FY2008 Funding
• Illegal Logging: Background and Issues
• Who Are the "Middle Class"?
• Congressional Redistricting: The Constitutionality of Creating an At-Large District
• U.S. Foreign Aid to Lebanon: Issues for Congress
• Medicaid Citizenship Documentation

Interested in historical CRS reports? If you are here at Boulder, check out the LexisNexis Congressional database, which has reports back to 1916.

Want to check out some other free sources of reports? Check out the library's guide.