Congressional Research Service Reports

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 Syria, national security, health, 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:

• 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
• U.S. Nuclear Cooperation With India: Issues for Congress
• Nuclear Weapons: The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program
• Suits Against Terrorist States By Victims of Terrorism
• Syria: Background and U.S. Relations
• China’s Economic Conditions

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.