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 mountain pine beetles, torture, Iraq, 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:

• Interrogation of Detainees: Requirements of the Detainee Treatment Act
• U.N. Convention Against Torture (CAT): Overview and Application to Interrogation Techniques
• The U.N. Convention Against Torture: Overview of U.S. Implementation Policy Concerning the Removal of Aliens
• The War Crimes Act: Current Issues
• Renditions: Constraints Imposed by Laws on Torture
• Afghanistan: Government Formation and Performance
• Brazil-U.S. Relations
• China and the Global Financial Crisis: Implications for the United States
• China's Currency Peg: A Summary of the Economic Issues
• Congress and U.S. Policy on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees: Recent Legislation and Implementation
• Cuba: U.S. Restrictions on Travel and Legislative Initiatives
• Fifth Summit of the Americas, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 2009: Background, Agenda, and Expectations
• Flag Protection: A Brief History and Summary of Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Proposed Constitutional Amendment
• Iran's Ballistic Missile Programs: An Overview
• Iraq: Politics, Elections, and Benchmarks
• Long-Range Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe
• Military Medical Care: Questions and Answers
• Military Recruitment Provisions Under the No Child Left Behind Act: A Legal Analysis
• Mountain Pine Beetles and Forest Destruction: Effects, Responses, and Relationships to Climate Change
• NATO Enlargement: Senate Advice and Consent
• NATO in Afghanistan: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance
• Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
• Preserving Homeownership: Foreclosure Prevention Issues
• Privacy Law and Online Advertising: Legal Analysis of Data Gathering By Online Advertisers Such As Double Click and NebuAd
• Social Security Administration: Workloads, Resources, and Service Delay
• South Africa: Current Issues and U.S. Relations
• Sovereign Wealth Funds: Background and Policy Issues for Congress
• The African Development Bank Group
• The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• The Republic of the Philippines: Background and U.S. Relations
• The U.S. Secret Service: An Examination and Analysis of Its Evolving Missions
• Troubled Asset Relief Program and Foreclosures
• Wind Energy: Offshore Permitting
• Yemen: Current Conditions and U.S. Relations

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.