CRS reports from this week

Yes, it is Wednesday not Tuesday, but I didn't get a list of new CRS reports until today. The Congressional Research Service (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 digital TV, bridges and diplomacy. 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:

• Spectrum Use and the Transition to Digital TV
• Medicaid and SCHIP Provisions in H.R. 3162 and S. 1893/H.R. 976
• The Federal Protective Service and Contract Security Guards: A Statutory History and Current Status
• Spectrum Management: Auctions
• Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Transformational Diplomacy
• U.S. Foreign Aid to East and South Asia: Selected Recipients
  
• The Role of National Oil Companies in the International Oil Market
  
• The War Crimes Act: Current Issues
  
• Manipulating Molecules: Federal Support for Nanotechnology Research
  
• Highway Bridges: Conditions and the Federal/State Role
  
• Federal Railroad Safety Programs: Selected Issues in Proposed Reauthorization Legislation
  
• Transportation Security: Issues for the 110th Congress
  
• P.L. 110-55, the Protect America Act of 2007: Modifications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

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.