Congressional Research Service (CRS) 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 a number of CRS reports on presidential succession, Iraq, federal workforce, 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:

• Supreme Court Appellate Jurisdiction Over Military Court Cases
• Presidential Succession: Perspectives, Contemporary Analysis, and 110th Congress Proposed Legislation
• Defense: FY2009 Authorization and Appropriations
• Homeland Security Department: FY2009 Appropriations
• The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture: Issues for Congress
• Operation Iraqi Freedom: Strategies, Approaches, Results, and Issues for Congress
• Afghanistan: Presidential and Parliamentary Elections
• Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests
• Assistance to Firefighters Program: Distribution of Fire Grant Funding
• Clean Water Act: Legislation Concerning Discharges from Recreational Boats
• Cuba: Issues for the 110th Congress
• Federal Railroad Safety Programs: Selected Issues in Proposed Reauthorization Legislation
• Food and Agricultural Imports from China
• Gasoline Prices: New Legislation and Proposals
• Generalized System of Preferences: Background and Renewal Debate
• Health and Safety Concerns Over U.S. Imports of Chinese Products: An Overview
• Honduran-U.S. Relations
• International Population Assistance and Family Planning Programs: Issues for Congress
• Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses
• Iran's Influence in Iraq
• Iraq: Post-Saddam National Elections
• Kenya: The December 2007 Elections and the Challenges Ahead
• National Flood Insurance Program: Treasury Borrowing in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
• National Security Strategy: Legislative Mandates, Execution to Date, and Considerations for Congress
• Net Neutrality: Background and Issues
• Oil Industry Financial Performance and the Windfall Profits Tax
• Taiwan: Major U.S. Arms Sales Since 1990
• The Federal Workforce: Characteristics and Trends
• The Kurds in Post-Saddam Iraq
• The U.S. Trade Deficit, The Dollar, and The Price of Oil
• Tsunami Detection and Warnings for the United States
• Visa Waiver Program

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.