This Weeks 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 only brings us CRS reports on economic issues, national security, government employees, 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 OpenCRS and Secrecy News:

• The Cost of Government Financial Interventions, Past and Present
• Proposal to Allow Treasury to Buy Mortgage Related Assets to Address Financial Instability
• The Department of Defense Role in Foreign Assistance: Background, Major Issues, and Options for Congress
• Pay-for-Performance: The National Security Personnel System
• The Defense Base Act (DBA): The Federally Mandated Workers’ Compensation System for Overseas Government Contractors
• The North Korean Economy: Leverage and Policy Analysis
• Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments
• Periods of War
• The Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program, and Federal Energy Technology R&D Programs: A Comparative Analysis

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.