Congressional Research Service Reports this week

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 brings us CRS reports on the Iran, recession, climate change, and much more. 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:

• Defense Contracting in Iraq: Issues and Options for Congress
• The National Security Council: An Organizational Assessment
• Homeland Security Department: FY2009 Request for Appropriations
• Japan’s Nuclear Future: Policy Debate, Prospects, and U.S. Interests
• Does Price Transparency Improve Market Efficiency? Implications of Empirical Evidence in Other Markets for the Health Sector
• The “Red-Dead” Canal: Israeli-Arab Efforts to Restore the Dead Sea
• Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses
• Community Development Block Grant Funds in Disaster Relief and Recovery
• NATO in Afghanistan: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance
• Suspension of Budget Enforcement Procedures During Low Economic Growth
• Revising the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for Lead
• Cyclone Nargis and Burma's Constitutional Referendum
• Navy-Marine Corps Strike-Fighter Shortfall: Background and Options for Congress
• Evaluating the Potential for a Recession in 2008
• The "Red-Dead" Canal: Israeli-Arab Efforts to Restore the Dead Sea
• Basel II in the United States: Progress Toward a Workable Framework
• Climate Change: Costs and Benefits of S. 2191
• Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2006: A Fact Sheet on Department of Defense Authority to Train and Equip Foreign Military Forces

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.