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 arms sales, influenza, the Congressional Review Act, 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:

• Arms Sales: Congressional Review Process
• Bahrain: Reform, Security, and U.S. Policy
  
• Cluster Munitions: Background and Issues
  for Congress
• Congressional Review Act: Rules Not Submitted to GAO and Congress
  
• Desalination: Status and Federal Issues
• Security Classification Policy and Procedure: E.O. 12958, as Amended
  
• Terrorist Watchlist Checks and Air Passenger
  Prescreening
• Understanding China’s Political System
  
• U.S. Periods of War
• Would an Influenza Pandemic Qualify as a Major Disaster Under the Stafford Act?
  

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.