CRS 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 only brings us a number of CRS reports on mortgage backed securities, NATO, Navy, 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:

• U.S. Nuclear Cooperation With India: Issues for Congress
• Iraq’s Debt Relief: Procedure and Potential Implications for International Debt Relief
• NATO Enlargement: Albania, Croatia, and Possible Future Candidates
• Navy DDG-1000 Destroyer Program: Background, Oversight Issues, and Options for Congress
• Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress
• Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler Aircraft: Background and Issues for Congress
  
• Direct Overt U.S. Aid, Export Assistance and Military Reimbursements to Pakistan, FY2002-FY2009
• Economic Development Assistance for Communities Affected by Employment Changes Due to Military Base Closures
• Financial Turmoil: Comparing the Troubled Asset Relief Program to the Federal Reserve’s Response
• Administering Green Programs in Congress: Issues and Options
• U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians
• Auction Basics: Background for Assessing Proposed Treasury Purchases of MortgageBacked Securities
• Cost-of-Living Adjustments for Federal Civil Service Annuities
• Federal Personnel: Conversion of Employees from Appointed (Noncareer) Positions to Career Positions in the Executive Branch
• Potential Offset Supply in a Cap-and-Trade 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.