Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports

Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a research agency of Congress and writes reports at Congress' request. These short reports (usually 10-40 pages long) cover recent topics of concern. This week brings us reports on broadband Internet access, Medicare, the financial crisis, and more. Although 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:

• Broadband Internet Access and the Digital Divide: Federal Assistance Programs
• Credit for Military Service Under Civilian Federal Employee Retirement Systems
• Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative: Legal Authorities and Policy Considerations
• Medicare Primer
• Filling U.S. Senate Vacancies: Perspectives and Contemporary Developments
• Analysis of Legislative Proposals Addressing Guantanamo Detainees
• The Financial Crisis: Impact on and Response by the European Union
  
• Tax Reform: An Overview of Proposals in the 111th Congress
• The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): Summary of Actions in Support of Housing and Financial Markets
• North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons
• Japan’s Nuclear Future: Policy Debate, Prospects, and U.S. Interests
• The United Arab Emirates Nuclear Program and Proposed U.S. Nuclear Cooperation

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.