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 Iran, nuclear waste, climate change, 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:

• Iran’s Economic Conditions: U.S. Policy Issues
• U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians
• The Google Library Project: Is Digitization for Purposes of Online Indexing Fair Use Under Copyright Law?
• FEMA’s Disaster Declaration Process: A Primer
• Nuclear Waste Disposal: Alternatives to Yucca Mountain
• Amtrak: Budget and Reauthorization
• Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Security Issues and Implications for U.S. Interests
• Biochar: Examination of an Emerging Concept to Mitigate Climate Change
• Cuba: Issues for the 111th Congress
• Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP): Status and Issues
• Federal Statutes: What They Are and Where to Find Them
• Foreign Aid: An Introduction to U.S. Programs and Policy
• U.S. Global Climate Change Policy: Evolving Views on Costs, Competitiveness, and Comprehensiveness
• Iraq: U.S. Regime Change Efforts and Post-War Governance
• Lebanon: Background and U.S. Relations
• The Law of Church and State: Public Aid to Sectarian Schools
• U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea: Living Resources Provisions
• U.S. Energy: Overview and Selected Facts and Numbers
• U.S.-Vietnam Relations in 2009: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy

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.