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 Afghanistan, financial regulation, the newspaper industry, 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:

• Afghanistan and Pakistan Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs), H.R. 1318/H.R. 1886/H.R. 2410 and S. 496: Issues and Arguments
• Afghanistan: U.S. Foreign Assistance
  
• Agricultural Conservation Issues in the 111th Congress
• Air Force F-22 Fighter Program: Background and Issues for Congress
  
• America COMPETES Act and the FY2010 Budget
• Chemical Facility Security: Reauthorization, Policy Issues, and Options for Congress
  
• Congressional Member Organizations: Their Purpose and Activities, History, and Formation
• Covert Action: Legislative Background and Possible Policy Questions
• Defense: FY2010 Authorization and Appropriations
  
• Economic Stimulus: Issues and Policies
  
• Federally Funded Innovation Inducement Prizes
• Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2010
• Financial Regulatory Reform: Analysis of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) as Proposed by the Obama Administration and H.R. 3126
  
• "Gang of Four" Congressional Intelligence Notifications
  
• Intelligence Issues for Congress
  
• Issues Regarding a National Land Parcel Database
• Kyrgyzstan and the Status of the U.S. Manas Airbase: Context and Implications
• NATO in Afghanistan: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance
  
• North Korea: Terrorism List Removal
• Ocean Acidification
  
• Post Office and Retail Postal Facility Closures: Overview and Issues for Congress
• Preserving Homeownership: Foreclosure Prevention Initiatives
  
• Protecting the U.S. Perimeter: Border Searches Under the Fourth Amendment
• 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 Size and Role of Government: Economic Issues
• Spectrum Policy in the Age of Broadband: Issues for Congress
  
• Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion
  
• The U.S. Newspaper Industry in Transition
  

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.