CRS reports this week

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 agriculture, piracy, greenhouse gas, 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:

• Agriculture, Nutrition, and Rural Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009
• Alternative Fuels and Advanced Technology Vehicles: Issues in Congress
• Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements
• Assistance to Firefighters Program: Distribution of Fire Grant Funding
• Automobile and Light Truck Fuel Economy: The CAFE Standards
• Campaign Finance
• Carbon Tax and Greenhouse Gas Control: Options and Considerations for Congress
• Clean Air Issues in the 111th Congress
• Discriminatory Pricing and the Robinson-Patman Act: Brief Background and Analysis
• Economic Stimulus: Issues and Policies
• Endangered Species Act (ESA) Issues Regarding Columbia Basin Salmon and Steelhead
• End-of-Life Care: Services, Costs, Ethics, and Quality of Care
• Estimates of Carbon Mitigation Potential from Agricultural and Forestry Activities
• Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization: An Overview of Selected Provisions in Proposed Legislation
• Federal Lands Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service (FS): Issues for the 11th Congress
• Federal R&D, Drug Discovery, and Pricing: Insights from the NIH-University-Industry Relationship
• Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Issues in the 111th Congress
• Funding for Education in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (PL 111-5)
• Globalized Supply Chains and U.S. Policy
• Enemy Combatant Detainees: Habeas Corpus Challenges in Federal Court
• Immigration: The Effects on Low-Skilled and High-Skilled Native-Born Workers
• Federal Information Security and Data Breach Notification Safeguards
• Intellectual Property Rights and International Trade
• Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges
• Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background, Status, and Issues
• Medicare Advantage
• Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies: FY2009 Appropriations
• National Aviation Security Policy, Strategy, and Mode-Specific Plans: Background and Considerations for Congress
• Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier (CVN) Homeporting at Mayport: Background and Issues for Congress
• Net Neutrality: The Federal Communications Commission's Authority to Enforce its Network Management Principles
• Ocean Acidification
• Ocean Piracy and Its Impact on Insurance
• Offshore Oil and Gas Development: Legal Framework
• Peacekeeping/Stabilization and Conflict Transitions: Background and Congressional Action on the Civilian Response/Reserve Corps and other Civilian Stabilization and Reconstruction Capabilities
• Postage Subsidies for Periodicals: History and Recent Developments
• Products Liability: A Legal Overview
• Public Health and Medical Preparedness and Response: Issues in the 111th Congress
• Congressional Nominations to U.S. Service Academies: An Overview and Resources for Outreach and Management
• Selected Issues Related to an Expansion of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)
• Small Business Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• State Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage of Noncitizens
• The Bayh-Dole Act: Selected Issues in Patent Policy and the Commercialization of Technology
• The Congressional Review Act and Possible Consolidation into a Single Measure of Resolutions Disapproving Regulations
• The Economic Effects of Capital Gains Taxation
• The Evolving Broadband Infrastructure: Expansion, Applications, and Regulation
• The FHA Modernization Act of 2008
• The First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit: An Economic Analysis
• The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act
• The National Security Council: An Organizational Assessment
• The Potential Role of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant in the Recession Gene Falk
• Transportation Security: Issues for the 110th Congress
• U.S. Civilian Space Policy Priorities: Reflections 50 Years After Sputnik
• U.S. Farm Income
• Unemployment and Health Insurance: Current Legislation and Issues
• Unemployment Insurance Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• United Nations Reform: U.S. Policy and International Perspectives
• War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance
• Water Infrastructure Funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• Who Regulates Whom? An Overview of U.S. Financial Supervision

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.