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 lot of CRS reports, including ones stimulus, energy, China, 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:

• Detection of Nuclear Weapons and Materials: Science, Technologies, Observations
• "Fast Track" Procedures to Disapprove Additional Funds Under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
• A Federal Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration: Options and Issues for Consideration
• Abortion Law Development: A Brief Overview
• Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress
• Broadband Internet Access and the Digital Divide: Federal Assistance Programs
• Causes of the Financial Crisis
• China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States
• Community Service Requirement for Residents of Public Housing
• Copyright Protection for Fashion Design: A Legal Analysis of the Design Piracy Prohibition Act, H.R. 2033
• Countercyclical Job Creation Programs
• Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House: Member and Committee Requirements
• Earmark Disclosure Rules in the Senate: Member and Committee Requirements
• Emergency Unemployment Compensation
• Energy Policy Act of 2005
• Federal Budget Process Reform in the 111th Congress
• Financial Market Intervention
• Homelessness: Recent Statistics, Targeted Federal Programs and Recent Legislation
• Infrastructure Programs: What's Different About Broadband?
• International Population Assistance and Family Planning Programs: Issues for Congress
• Iraq: Summary of U.S. Casualties
• Issues in Green Building and the Federal Response: An Introduction
• Medicaid: The Federal Medical Assistance Percentage
• Proposed Funding for Workforce Development in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009
• The Cigarette Tax Increase to Finance SCHIP
• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Federal Funding Facts and Status
• The Department of Housing and Urban Development: FY2009 Appropriations
• The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act and Current Financial Turmoil: Issues and Analysis
• The Haitian Economy and the HOPE Act
• The U.S. Financial Crisis: The Global Dimension with Implications for U.S. Policy
• The Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF)
• The Unemployment Trust Fund and Reed Act Distributions
• The UNESCO Wold Heritage Convention: Congressional Issues
• The Worker, Retiree, and Employer Recovery Act of 2008: An Overview
• U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF): Background and Issues for Congress
• U.S. Trade Policy and the Caribbean: From Trade Preferences to Free Trade Agreements
• Underground Carbon Dioxide Storage: Frequently Asked Questions

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.