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 the European Parliament, health reform, closing Guantanamo, strategic arms control, 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:

• China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress
  
• China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy
• Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues
  
• Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Current Legislative Issues
  
• Defense Acquisitions: How DOD Acquires Weapon Systems and Recent Efforts to Reform the Process
• The Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and Current Developments
  
• Disaster Relief Funding and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
• East Asia’s Foreign Exchange Rate Policies
• The European Parliament
  
• The Export Administration Act: Evolution, Provisions, and Debate
  
• F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background and Issues for Congress
• Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2010
  
• FEMA's Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program: Overview and Issues
• FY2009 Spring Supplemental Appropriations for Overseas Contingency Operations
• FY2010 National Defense Authorization Act: Selected Military Personnel Policy Issues
  
• Ghana: Background and U.S. Relations
• Greenhouse Gas Legislation: Summary and Analysis of H.R. 2454 as Passed by the House of Representatives
  
• Guinea's 2008 Military Coup and Relations with the United States
• Health Care Reform: An Introduction
  
• Human Rights in China: Trends and Policy Implications
• International Criminal Court Cases in Africa: Status and Policy Issues
  
• Iran Sanctions
• Iraq: Oil and Gas Legislation, Revenue Sharing, and U.S. Policy
  
• Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security
• Issues Regarding a National Land Parcel Database
  
• Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections
• Latin America: Terrorism Issues
• Navy F/A-18E/F and EA-18G Aircraft Procurement and Strike Fighter Shortfall: Background and Issues for Congress
  
• Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress
• Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress
• Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier (CVN) Homeporting at Mayport: Background and Issues for Congress
  
• Navy Nuclear-Powered Surface Ships: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress
  
• Panama: Political and Economic Conditions and U.S. Relations
• Peru: Current Conditions and U.S. Relations
• Post Office and Retail Postal Facility Closures: Overview and Issues for Congress
• Private Health Insurance Provisions of H.R. 3200
  
• Saudi Arabia: Background and U.S. Relations
• Strategic Arms Control After START: Issues and Options
• Sudan: The Crisis in Darfur and Status of the North-South Peace Agreement
  
• Tactical Aircraft Modernization: Issues for Congress
• The United Arab Emirates Nuclear Program and Proposed U.S. Nuclear Cooperation
  
• U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians
• U.S. Foreign Assistance to the Middle East: Historical Background, Recent Trends, and the FY2010 Request
  
• U.S. Military Stop Loss Program: Key Questions and Answers
• U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues
• V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft: Background and Issues for Congress
• Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Agency Travel Card Programs
  
• The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)
  
• Yemen: Background and U.S. Relations
  

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.