Congressional Research Service reports

It's Tuesday and time for another set of Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports. CRS is a research agency of Congress and writes reports at Congress's request. These short reports (usually 10-40 pages long) cover recent topics of concern, this week gives us reports on globalization, copyright and agriculture. While these reports are in the public domain there is no central database available to the public. To get a copy of a CRS report you can request it from your Senator or Representative. This list is compiled from CRS reports discovered by Secrecy News and OpenCRS:

• Capital Punishment Overview: 2006-2007 Term of the Supreme Court
• Globalization, Worker Insecurity, and Policy Approaches
• Executive Branch Reorganization and Management Initiatives: A Brief Overview
• Constitutional Limits on Punitive Damages Awards: An Analysis of the Supreme Court Case Philip Morris USA v. Williams
• Internet Search Engines: Copyright's 'Fair Use'" in Reproduction and Public Display Rights
• Nuclear Energy Policy
• The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
• Private Security Contractors in Iraq: Background, Legal Status, and Other Issues
• Sugar Policy and the 2007 Farm Bill
• Possible Expiration of the 2002 Farm Bill

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 a guide linking to various additional sources of CRS reports.