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 power, nuclear weapons, 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:

• Aviation and Climate Change
• Chile: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations
• Economic Stimulus: Issues and Policies
• Education of Limited English Proficient and Recent Immigrant Students: Provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
• Federal Employees: Pay and Pension Increases Since 1969
• GAO: Government Accountability Office and General Accounting Office
• Great Lakes Water Withdrawals: Legal and Policy Issues
• House and Senate Rules of Procedure: A Comparison
• Inequality in the Distribution of Income: Trends and International Comparisons
• Insurance Regulation: History, Background, and Recent Congressional Oversight
• Israel and the Palestinians: Prospects for a Two-State Solution
• K-12 Education: Special Forms of Flexibility in the Administration of Federal Aid Programs
• Medical Malpractice Insurance: An Economic Introduction and Review of Historical Experience
• Pesticide Registration and Tolerance Fees: Overview
• Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board: New Independent Agency Status
• Projections of FY2009 Federal SCHIP Allotments Under CHIPRA 2009
• Proposed Funding for Education in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• Resolving Legislative Differences in Congress: Conference Committees and Amendments Between the Houses
• Revising Insurance Regulation: Policy Considerations
• Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act: Reauthorization and Appropriations
• Sino-Japanese Relations: Issues for U.S. Policy
• State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2009 Appropriations
• States and Proposed Economic Recovery Plans
• Terrorist Attacks in Mumbai, India, and Implications for U.S. Interests
• The Executive Office of the President: An Historical Overview
• The Federal Budget: Current and Upcoming Issues
• The Global Financial Crisis: The Role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• The Marines' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV): Background and Issues for Congress
• The OECD Initiative on Tax Havens
• Water Infrastructure Project Earmarks in EPA Appropriations: Trends and Policy Implications

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.