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 FISA, wind power, appropriations, 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:

• The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture: Issues for Congress
• The Enron Loophole
• Speculation and Energy Prices: Legislative Responses
• Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2009 Appropriations
• Global Health: Appropriations to USAID Programs from FY2001 through FY2008
• U.S.-Iraq Strategic Framework and Status of Forces Agreement: Congressional Response
• International HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria: Key Changes to U.S. Programs and Funding
• "Phantom Traffic" -- Problems Billing for the Termination of Telephone Calls: Issues for Congress
• Health Care for Noncitizens in Immigration Detention
• Intellectual Property in Industrial Designs: Issues in Innovation and Competition
• Forest Carbon Markets: Potential and Drawbacks
• Foreign Investment and National Security: Economic Considerations
• Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007: The Role of the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate
• Medicare: Payments to Physicians
• Building an Interagency Cadre of National Security Professionals: Proposals, Recent Experience, and Issues for Congress
• The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: A Sketch of Selected Issues
• Membership of the 110th Congress: A Profile
• Public-Private Partnerships in Highway and Transit Infrastructure Provision
• The Future Role of U.S. Trade Policy: An Overview
• Emergency Unemployment Compensation
• Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's Financial Problems: Frequently Asked Questions

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.