CRS reports made available this week

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 public transportation, digital television, and Iraq. 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:

• Peru: Political Situation, Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations
• Lobbying Law and Ethics Rules Changes in the 110th Congress
• The Transition to Digital Television: Is America Ready?
• Taxation of Private Equity and Hedge Fund Partnerships: Characterization of Carried Interest
• The Death Penalty: Capital Punishment Legislation in the 110th Congress
• The FY2008 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues
• Improper Payments Information Act of 2002: Background, Implementation, and Assessment
• Public Transit Program Issues in Surface Transportation Reauthorization
• Managing Electronic Waste: An Analysis of State E-Waste Legislation
• Yemen: Current Conditions and U.S. Relations
• India-U.S. Economic and Trade Relations
• U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress
• United States Military Casualty Statistics: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
• Federal Prison Industries
• Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan: Effects and Countermeasures
• U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues
• U.S.-China Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
• Venezuela: Political Conditions and U.S. Policy
• Liberia’s Post-War Recovery: Key Issues and Developments
• Australia: Background and U.S. Relations
  

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.