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 derivatives reform, cars and climate, high speed rail, the war in Afghanistan, 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. These reports were discovered by OpenCRS and Secrecy News:

• Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
  
• Broadband Infrastructure Programs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• Cars and Climate: What Can EPA Do to Control Greenhouse Gases from Mobile Sources?
  
• China’s Assistance and Government-Sponsored Investment Activities in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia
• The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
  
• Comparison of Rights in Military Commission Trials and Trials in Federal Criminal Court
• The Copyright Registration Requirement and Federal Court Jurisdiction: A Legal Analysis of Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick
  
• Foreign Direct Investment in the United States: An Economic Analysis
  
• Foreign Investment, CFIUS, and Homeland Security: An Overview
• FY2010 Department of Homeland Security Assistance to States and Localities
  
• The German Economy and U.S.-German Economic Relations
• High Speed Rail (HSR) in the United States
• Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy
• Journalists' Privilege: Overview of the Law and Legislation in the 110th and 111th Congresses
  
• Key Issues in Derivatives Reform
  
• The Market Structure of the Health Insurance Industry
• An Overview of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Control Policies in Various Countries
• Privacy: An Overview of Federal Statutes Governing Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping
  
• The Rise of China’s Auto Industry and Its Impact on the U.S. Motor Vehicle Industry
• Sexual Violence in African Conflicts
• Technology Transfer: Use of Federally Funded Research and Development
• Transatlantic Regulatory Cooperation: A Possible Role for Congress
  
• Traumatic Brain Injury: Care and Treatment of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans
• Unemployment and Economic Recovery
  
• United States Relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
  
• U.S. Aerospace Manufacturing: Industry Overview and Prospects
  
• U.S. Arms Sales: Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients, 2001-2008
• U.S. Direct Investment Abroad: Trends and Current Issues
• U.S. Economy in Recession: Similarities To and Differences From the Past
• U.S. Trade Deficit and the Impact of Changing Oil Prices
  
• War in Afghanistan: Strategy, Military Operations, and Issues for Congress
  

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.