CRS Reports Are Back!

The last few weeks have not given us any CRS reports, but this week we seem to back with a nice new pile! 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 foreign relations, budget deficits, military, and much 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:

• The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications
• Central Asia's Security: Issues and Implications for U.S. Interests
• Department of Homeland Security Assistance to States and Localities: A Summary and Issues for the 111th Congress
• District of Columbia Appropriations for FY2004
• El Salvador: Political, Economic, and Social Conditions and Relations with the United States
• Energy Provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (P.L. 111-5)
• F/A-22 Raptor
• Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2009
• Federalism Issues in Surface Transportation Policy: Past and Present
• International Trade: Rules of Origin
• Iraq: Recent Developments in Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance
  
• Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections
• Latin America: Terrorism Issues
• Madagascar's 2009 Political Crisis
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program: An Overview
• Military Funeral Honors and Military Cemeteries: Frequently Asked Questions
• NATO's 60th Anniversary Summit
• Public Health and Medical Preparedness and Response: Issues in the 111th Congress
• Rothe Development Corporation v. Department of Defense: The Constitutionality of Federal Contracting Programs for Minority-Owned and Other Small Businesses
• Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2006: A Fact Sheet on Department of Defense Authority to Train and Equip Foreign Military Forces
• The Advanced Spectroscopic Portal Program: Background and Issues for Congress
• The Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory
• The Army's Future Combat System (FCS): Background and Issues for Congress
• The Economics of the Federal Budget Deficit
• The Global Peace Operations Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress
• The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA): Does it Provide for a Private Cause of Action?
• The Technology Innovation Program
• The Tibetan Policy Act of 2002: Background and Implementation
• The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Background and Policy Issues
• Ukraine: Current Issues and U.S. Policy
• Veterans' Benefits: The Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program

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.