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 a number of CRS reports on Iraq, Congress, economic issues, 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:

• "Political" Activities of Private Recipients of Federal Grants or Contracts
• Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
• Azerbaijan's October 2008 Presidential Election: Outcome and Implications
• Committee Assignment Process in the U.S. Senate: Democratic and Republican Party Procedures
• Committee Numbers, Sizes, Assignments, and Staff: Selected Historical Data
• Current Economic Conditions and Selected Forecasts
• Emergency Economic Stabilization Act: Preliminary Analysis of Oversight Provisions
• Federal Research and Development Funding: Possible Impacts of Operating under a Continuing Resolution
• Haiti: Post-Hurricane Conditions and Assistance
• House Committee Organization and Process: A Brief Overview
• House Committees: Assignment Process
• House Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments
• House Leadership Structure: Overview of Party Organization
• House Subcommittees: Assignment Process
• Inequality in the Distribution of Income: Trends and International Comparisons
• Iran's Influence in Iraq
• Iraq: Summary of U.S. Casualties
• Military Airlift: C-17 Program Background
• Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2009 Appropriations
• NATO in Afghanistan: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance
• Particulate Matter (PM2.5): National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Implementation
• Party Leaders in the House: Election, Duties, and Responsibilities
• Polygraph Use by the Department of Energy: Issues for Congress
• Presidential Transitions: Issues Involving Outgoing and Incoming Administrations
• Section 811 and Other HUD Housing Programs for Persons with Disabilities
• Senate Committees: Categories and Rules for Committee Assignments
• Social Security: Calculation and History of Taxing Benefits
• Taiwan-U.S. Relations: Recent Developments and Their Policy Implications
• The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Funding Issues and Activities
• The Overseas Private Investment Corporation: Background and Legislative Issues
• Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: Background and Analysis
• Who Are the "Middle Class"?

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.