CRS reports found this week

Here are the latest discoveries from the Congressional Research Service (CRS). The CRS give concise, non-partisan views on topics of interest to Congress. While CRS reports are available on request from your congressional representatives, there is no free source of all these reports from the U.S. government, but there are groups that work to collect these reports. These are the reports that OpenCRS and Secrecy News released this week:

• National Security Letters in Foreign Intelligence Investigations: Legal Background and Recent Amendments
• Navy Force Structure: Alternative Force Structure Studies of 2005 -- Background for Congress
• Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court
  
• Opening of the International Tracing Service's Holocaust-Era Archives in Bad Arolsen, Germany
• Combating Terrorism: The Challenge of Measuring Effectiveness
• Environmental Impacts of Airport Operations, Maintenance, and Expansion
• What's the Difference? -- Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data
• Vulnerability of Concentrated Critical Infrastructure: Background and Policy Options
• Polar Bears: Proposed Listing Under the Endangered Species Act
• Nominations to Article III Lower Courts by President George W. Bush During the 110th Congress
• Pakistan: Significant Recent Events
• What's the Difference? -- Comparing U.S. and Chinese Trade Data
• Counting the Homeless: Homeless Management Information Systems
• Seafood Marketing: Combating Fraud and Deception
• Elections in France, 2007
• Animal Agriculture: 2007 Farm Bill Issues
• Why Has the Economy Become Less Volatile?
• The Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as Amended by the No Child Left Behind Act: A Primer
• Arab League Boycott of Israel
• High School Graduation, Completion, and Dropouts: Federal Policy, Programs, and Issues
• Nigeria: Current Issues
• Regulation of Health Benefits Under ERISA: An Outline
• Greenhouse Gas Reductions: California Action and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
• The Constitution and Racial Diversity in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Legal Analysis of Pending Supreme Court Cases
• Coordinated Party Expenditures in Federal Elections: An Overview
• U.S.-European Union Relations and the 2007 Summit
• Juvenile Justice: Rights During the Adjudicatory Process

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

Not on campus, but still want access to additional reports? The library has created a guide linking to various additional sources of CRS reports.