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 emergency alerts, energy efficiency, North Korea's second nuclear test, and other topics. 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 2009 Influenza Pandemic: Selected Legal Issues
• Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
• The Army's M-4 Carbine: Background and Issues for Congress
  
• Assistance to Firefighters Program: Distribution of Fire Grant Funding
  
• Economic Development Assistance for Communities Affected by Employment Changes Due to Military Base Closures (BRAC)
• The Emergency Alert System (EAS) and All-Hazard Warnings
  
• Emergency Communications: The Future of 911
• Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Critical Barriers and Congressional Policy
  
• Estimates of Carbon Mitigation Potential from Agricultural and Forestry Activities
  
• Federally Supported Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment Programs
• FY2009 Spring Supplemental Appropriations for Overseas Contingency Operations
• Haiti: Current Conditions and Congressional Concerns
  
• House Resolutions of Inquiry
  
• Impeachment: An Overview of Constitutional Provisions, Procedure, and Practice
  
• Indonesia: Domestic Politics, Strategic Dynamics, and American Interests
• Iran's Economic Conditions: U.S. Policy Issues
• Iraq: U.S. Casualties
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program: An Overview
  
• Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected (MRAP) Vehicles: Background and Issues for Congress
• Mongolia and U.S. Policy: Political and Economic Relations
• Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier (CVN) Homeporting at Mayport, Background and Issues for Congress
  
• North Korea’s Second Nuclear Test: Implications of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874
• Peacekeeping/Stabilization and Conflict Transitions: Background and Congressional Action on the Civilian Response/Reserve Corps and other Civilian Stabilization and Reconstruction Capabilities
• Potential Farm Sector Effects of 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu
  
• The Proposed U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA): Provisions and Implications
  
• Sensitive Covert Action Notifications: Oversight Options for Congress
• Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response: The SAFER Grant Program
  
• Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA): What Is It, and How Has It Been Utilized?
  
• Troop Levels in the Afghan and Iraq Wars, FY2001-FY2012: Cost and Other Potential Issues
• Tunisia: Current Issues
  
• U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea: Living Resources Provisions
  
• U.S. Security Assistance to the Palestinian Authority
  

Interested in historical CRS reports? If you are here at the Boulder campus, check out the LexisNexis Congressional database, which has reports dating 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.